AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 



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Grave LI, pit 96, at 102' on the east side of trench 10 was a large 

 grave [see pi. 12]. The topsoil was removed and the grave area 

 found to be 72" by 78". At 36" the rim of a pottery vessel was 

 touched by the trowel, indicating the proximity of the grave bottom. 

 The overlying soil was carefully removed with army trowels and the 



Fig. 14 Effigy pipe from grave XLVII, pit 92 



skeletons cleaned and brushed. The remains of 4 skeletons lay in 

 the grave bottom, those of an aged female, 2 children aged about 

 10 and 12 years, respectively, and the skull-less remains of what 

 seemed a male skeleton. The northmost skeleton was that of a 

 child of about 12 years. Above its crushed skull was a badly 

 broken pottery vessel. The second skeleton was that of a female 

 and was likewise in a poor state of preservation. Above the fore- 



Fig. IS Small cup from grave 

 LI, pit 96 



head, to the east, was a large broken pot, back of the skull was a 

 cuplike vessel [text fig. 15] with two smaller cups turned with 

 mouths down over it. Near the dorsal vertebra between this skele- 



