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experience and, as a rule, were on or near the base, fliough some were hia-her in the 

 mound. A certain number lay below the shell layer, while others were^just above 

 It. Scattered bones lay here and there among the shells. Superficial burials, after 

 the mound had reached a considerable height, were not present. 



There were noted l^y us in the mound sixty-eight burials, includins the closely 

 flexed, the loosely flexed, the bunch, the lone skull, scattered bones, one burial in a 



Fig. its.— Smoking pipe witli Burial Xo. 60. Mound uear Porter'.s Bar. (Full size.) 



squatting position and one pocket of calcined fragments of human bones, which 

 resembled the deposits of cremated bones in Georgia where many fragments, all cal- 

 cined, lie together. Cabeqa de Vaca tells ' us " it is their custom to bury the dead 

 unless it be those among them who have been physicians, and those they burn." 



Though the state of the burials was such through decay and pressure of sand 

 that no skulls were preserved, yet a number, though fragmentary, permitted exami- 

 nation as to cranial compression. In but one case was compression noted and then 

 to a moderate degree on\y. 



Burial No. 23 consisted of badly decayed bones in a shallow grave below the 

 base. With them was a rude lancehead. 



Burial No. 27, a skull and some badly decayed bones had sand colored with 

 hematite in association, as did a number of other burials in the mound. 



Burial No. 49 had teeth alone remaining. With these were a small earthenware 

 vessel and a smoothing stone. 



Burial No. 50, a lone skull, had with it a hammer-stone, a small stone pendant, 

 a bit of sandstone, a pebble-hammer and three cutting implements made from 

 columellas of large marine univalves. 



Burial No. 54, a lone skull, had in association a small earthenware vessel (No. 



' The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca, translated by Buckingliam Siiiitli. Wash- 

 ington, 1851, pg. 49. 



