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But few artifacts lay with the bones. With one was a pebble-hammer ; with 

 another a pebble. 



Burial No. 8, consisting of a skull and two thigh bones, had somewhat above it 

 a rude, undecorated vessel with perforate base. Extending from this vessel in a 

 northerly direction for 2.5 feet was a deposit made of several considerable parts of 

 coarse undecorated vessels of ordinary types and many sherds from various vessels, 

 some undecorated, one with a small check stamp and a number with complicated 

 stamps. On the northernmost sherd, a large one, lay a single skull. 



With burial No. 21, one femur and two tibia?, was an undecorated spheroidal 

 vessel of compact ware, 3.6 inches in diameter and 2.6 inches in height. The circu- 

 lar aperture is but .8 of an inch in diameter. On either side are 'small perforations 

 for suspension. There is a basal j)erforation (Fig. 171). 



With Burial No. 22, a partial flexion on the right side, was a smoking j)ipe of 

 earthenware with bowl and portion for the stem, circular in shape and at right 

 angles to each other. Each orifice is about 1 inch in diameter (Fig. 172). This 

 burial was fairly well preserved and, being near the surface, may have been an 

 intrusive one. 



With Burial No. 23, bones disturbed by caving sand, was a pear-shaped 

 "sinker" or pendant, wrought from a quartzose pebble, with the smaller end 

 ■grooved for suspension. 



Burial No. 26, a skeleton flexed on the left side, lay 4 feet 7 inches down, a few 

 feet from the center of the mound. At either side of the head, was a disc of sheet 

 copper about 2.7 inches in diameter having a central incused space with a small 

 pei'foration in the middle, surrounded by a repousse margin. Behind each disc, 

 that is between the disc and the skull, was a disc of earthenware about 1.7 inches 

 in diameter, having a small central perforation. On the outside of one of the copper 

 discs there remains a knot formed from a cord or a si]iew. It is evident, then, that 

 these objects were ear-plugs, the copper being worn on the outside of the ear while 

 the earthenware disc, fastened to the copper one, remained at the back of the lobe of 

 the ear.-^ We are unable to say whether or not the two discs comprising each ear- 

 plug were permanently fastened and the smaller disc buttoned through a hole in the 

 lobe of the ear. Very likely this was the case since we know the custom among 

 the- aborigines to have a great oj)ening in the lobe of the ear, obtained from Peru 

 northward. 



Burials Nos. 29 and 30 had each a turtle-shell in association. These shells, 

 each ' about 7 inches across, if used for rattles, must have contained perishable 

 material as no pebbles were met with inside. 



Burial No. 31 had near it an undecorated vessel of poor material and ordinary 

 type, having the usual basal perforation . 



In this mound were no deposits distinctly marginal, as objects put in for the 

 dead in general were found in all parts of the mound and at all depths. 



1 We found two earthenware discs of this kind and fragments of sheet copper, in a low mound 

 near Helena, Lake Co., Fla., and described them in our " Certain Sand Mounds of the Ocklawaha 

 River, Florida," Journ. Acad. Nat. Soi., Phila., Vol. X, but did not know their use at that time. 



