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west. The arms were doubled so that the hands totiched the chin. 

 The skull, beside being forced apart at the sutures by the weight 

 of the superincumbent earth showed a gaping hole apparently made 

 in ancient times, while beneath the sternum lay a triangular flint 

 arrowhead, which by irritation had eviden ly caused a ])athological 

 condition of the bone above it. Besides a terra cotta pipe, two iron 

 knives and two bits of paint lying near the right arm, a few frag- 

 ments of a bag made of skin with the hair left on, probably pre- 

 served by copper salts, were found near the right shoulder. Some 

 blue beads and fish teeth encountered here had evidently been in 

 the bag. The neck was encircled by five long, red pipestone (cat- 

 linite) beads, two of which were decorated wi'di notches. Along 

 the lower leg were strips of skin, evidently part of the leggings, 

 preserved by the copper beads sewn along their edges. 



A certain type of infant burial, met with in a niunber of instances, 

 was peculiar. The tiny fragments of bone were surrounded by or 

 covered with a very distinct layer of charred bark and grass. 

 Almost without exception trade beads or wampum, sometimes even 

 tiny jars, were found with the remains. Sometimes the infants* 

 graves were extremely shallow, in one instance (pit 96) being only 

 10 inches deep, but still containing decayed infant's bones, a few 

 glass beads and a little pottery jar in good condition. In another 

 case, that of pit 60, the parents had been especially lavish with their 

 last gifts. Here the remains of the little skeleton lay at a depth of 

 21 inches, heading west. Near the skull was a small pottery jar in 

 good condition, at the neck a double row of copper beads, together 

 with Venetian and long red trade beads, perforated elk teeth, large 

 shell beads and a quantity of wampum. Around one arm was a 

 tubular brass bracelet and in the pot a number of conical copi)er 

 ornaments or jinglers and two pieces of decayed wood. Both the 

 copper beads and the wampum in some instances kept their posi ion 

 in short strings, the former being due to the preservation action of 

 the copper salts on the fiber or sinew string, the latter to the lime 

 from the shell of which the wampum was composed having cemen.ed 

 the beads together. Near the surface of the grave were distinct 

 traces of fire. 



A number of graves, both of infants and adults, exhibited near 

 the surface a layer of ashes indicating that the custom of keeping 

 a fire on the grave for some time after burial may have been prac- 

 tised here. 



Three cases of " bone burial " were found on this site. As may 

 be seen by the skeleton to the right in plate 75. found in pit 30, and 



