AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 5 II 



served. It lay upon its back with the face turned to the left but 

 otherwise in the usual flexed position. At the top of the skull and 

 a little to the front was a celt, F520. The skull lay to the southeast 

 and the face southwest. Four views of the cranium are shown in 

 plate 17. 



Grave XCIII, pit 133, in trench 18 at 20' on the west side was 

 39" deep. Over the entire grave was a heavy layer of black car- 

 bonized substances, a foot in thickness. The fragile skeleton of a 

 female lay in the grave bottom. Above and slightly to the rear of 

 the skull was a crushed vessel. Before the face were flints, steel, 

 F546, graphite, F545, red ocher and a heap of incised shell tablets, 

 F617 [see pi. 36, fig. i]. A necklace of discoidal shell beads, F618, 

 encircled the neck [see pi. 14]. At the chin as if once attached to the 

 circle of beads were 2 shell gorgets and a pendant, F516 [see pi. 36, 

 ^S- 2, 3, 7]. On the middle finger of the right hand was a coiled 

 copper ring. The soil was an ash and clay mixed gravel and sand 

 and cementlike. It was therefore very difficult to expose and re- 

 move the bones. The thin skull collapsed when lifted. The skele- 

 ton lay on its left side, flexed. With the skull pointing south and the 

 face to the west. 



Grave XCIV, pit 134, at 33' on the east-central side of trench 18 

 v/as 42" deep and contained the skeleton of a female. Owing to 

 the cementlike character of the soil here and the fragility of the 

 bones it was impossible to remove them. The skull which was 

 crushed was taken up with great care but fell apart. A broken 

 pot was found at the occiput. The skull headed south and the 

 face was to the east. The skeleton lay on its right side, flexed. 



Grave XCV, pit 135, at 22' on the east side of trench 18 was 66" 

 wide, 66" long and 42" deep. Excavations revealed the skeletons of 

 an adult male and female [see pi. 13, fig. 2]. Between the skulls 

 was a crushed and broken pot. Near the shoulders of the female 

 and touching the radius of the male were the following objects : i 

 spatulate water-washed pebble, 4 flint chips, 4 leaf-shaped flint 

 blades, i oval flint knife, 3 chunks of flint, 10 triangular arrow 

 points and i scraper. The male lay with the head pointing toward 

 the southeast and facing the southwest, on the left side and flexed; 

 the feriiale on its back with face up and skull to the south and legs 

 flexed to the southwest. 



Grave XCVI, pit 136, at 40' on the east side of trench 18 was 

 48" deep. Over the grave was a shallow ash pit in which was 

 found a bear's tusk. The skull pointed toward the southeast, the 

 face down and the body on the left side flexed. 



