536 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
At the right-hand wall, 10 inches from the northern end (that nearest the head), 
was a pot standing upright. At the left-hand wall, one foot from the northern end, 
approximately, were four pipes of earthenware, placed vertically, bowls downward, 
and intact. These pipes range in length between 6.5 inches and 5.3 inches. With 
the pipes were five flint arrowheads, disturbed in removal. | 
Three feet six inches from the northern end, along the left side of the grave 
(in line with the pelvis of the skeleton), was a deposit made up as follows: several 
pebbles; fragments of a bone implement, badly decayed ; a number of mussel-shells 
(Unto anodontoides) ; a bit of sandstone; two tines of deer antler, badly decayed; 
three arrowheads of rock-crystal, rather carelessly made; nineteen small fragments 
of quartz-crystal, some with sharp edges which could have been used for cutting; 
a small chisel of chipped flint; a celt of quartzite, 4 inches in length; a chisel of 
shale, 2.4 inches long. 
Five feet down the left wall of the pit was a large vessel оп its side, containing 
two oval ornaments of shell, each about one inch in length and perforated. Near 
this vessel was a deposit of four arrowheads of flint. This vessel was the outer 
limit of a deposit of pottery filling the left corner of the base of the grave, among 
which were several whole vessels and a number of other vessels crushed into small 
fragments, which were mingled together. This deposit seemed to have been heaped 
in, as one vessel at least was in the soil, 13 inches above the base of the pit. 
Also some distance above the base of the grave, but not in the vicinity of the 
pottery deposit, were encountered separately a chisel made from a flint pebble, 2.4 
inches in length, and an imperforate object of shell bordering on triangular, about 
an inch in length, flat on one side and convex on the other. 
BURIAL NUMBER 5. 
Burial No. 5 was a double interment. А skeleton, measuring 5 feet 3 inches 
as it lay, was extended on the back, the head directed S. by E. The skull, some- 
what broken, was sent to the National Museum and is pronounced by Doctor 
Hrdlicka to be that of a male. 
Immediately under the thorax of this skeleton was the skull of another skeleton, 
crushed flat. The skeleton to which this skull belonged lay in part under the first 
skeleton. 
The pit in which these skeletons lay could be traced to within about 4 feet 
from the surface and probably, like the others in the mound, it had been sunk from 
the summit-plateau. 
From the summit of the mound to the base of the grave the distance was 14 
feet 6 inches, or about 3 feet below the dark layer marking the base of the mound. 
The head of the grave was 6 feet 6 inches wide, and the opposite end was about the 
са The two longer sides were nearly equal in length, each being about 9 feet 6 
inches. 
In every case of a single, complete burial found by us in this mound the skele- 
ton lay about centrally on the base of the grave-pit, but in this instance the two 
skeletons had been placed well over toward the left-hand side of the pit, leaving 
unoccupied a considerable part of the grave, which seemingly was needlessly large. 
