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interred covered with tiesh, but rather, after being exposed for a period, as was the 

 custom with southern aborigines, that they were buried without the flesh but in the 

 main held together by ligaments. Missing bones or bones misplaced, occasionally, 

 show this to be true. 



Heads of skeletons pointed in all directions. A few skeletons were closely 

 flexed. The majoi'ity, however, had the thighs at right angles to the trunk, with 

 legs drawn up toward the thighs. Unless especially noted, burials were as follows : 

 flexed on the left side, 33 ; flexed on the right side, 25; flexed on the back, 3; full 

 length on back, 2 ; infants' skeletons, badly decayed, 2 ; skulls with fragments of 



Fig. 1.55.— Vessel with Burial No. 2. Mound A. Pierce mounds, near Apalachieola. (About full size.) 



bone, 3 ; lone skulls, 3 ; scattered remains, 9 ; aboriginal disturbance, 1 ; recent 

 disturbance, 1 ; skull in caved sand, 1 . 



The following are not included in the above. 



Burials No. 7 to No. 17, inclusive, a group comprising eleven skeletons vari- 

 ously flexed with skulls pointing in different directions, but mainly toward the cen- 

 tral part of the mound. These skeletons were in a layer of shell, from 1 foot to 1.5 

 feet in thickness, about 1 foot above the base. With this shell, above the bodies, 

 were blackened masses composed of charcoal, calcined shell, ashes, etc. These masses 

 did not seem to be remains of fires which had been made and allowed to burn at the 



