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mound, though on or near the base with the original burials, the one exception being 

 under the slope and no wise near the center. 



Burial No. 6. — Fragments of bones with which were many conch-shells, not 

 drinking cups, simply the shells {Fulgur perversuni). 



Burial No. 22. — Three skulls with a bit of tibia. With these were a number of 

 large clam-shells and parts of clam-shells showing wear, which probably had been 

 used as tools for cutting and scraping. 



With a number of burials in this mound were similar implements of clam-shell. 



Burial No. 26. — A closely flexed skeleton lying at the bottom of a grave at the 

 base of the mound which at this point was 5 feet in height. Above the skeleton, 

 which was one of those having a "celt" in association, were 2.5 feet of yellow sand 

 totally ditfering in color from the gray sand of that part of the mound where the grave 

 was. It would seem as though this grave had been made and filled with sand of 

 another color in a part of the mound but 2.5 feet in height when the grave was made 

 and that later, an additional 2.5 feet had been added to the mound. 



Burial No. 28. — A lone skull with charcoal nearby. 



Burial No. 30. — A lone skull with a few small shell beads. 



Burial No. 33. — K flexed skeleton with two perforated shell drinking cups. A 

 number of such cups were found in the mound but as a rule lying with deposits of 

 earthenware, unassociated with burials. 



Burial No. 36. — A lone skull had shell beads and a rude implement of chert. 



Burial No. 48. — A flexed skeleton had oyster-shells above it as did Burial No. 

 57, a flexed skeleton in a shallow grave. These two burials were exceptional in this 

 respect in this mound. 



Unassociated with bones were : two small masses of galena ; a stone chisel, 

 somewhat broken ; mica. 



In caved sand was a small fragment of thin sheet copper bearing small repousse 

 designs. 



Although there was no marginal deposit of earthenware vessels in the mound, 

 yet the aboriginal custom to place pottery for the dead in general in the eastern poi'- 

 tion of mounds, obtained also in this one. Though a number of sherds were found 

 at the start, no vessel was met with until the digging had reached a point 26 feet 

 ESE. from the center where lay together a number of intei'esting vessels. The 

 deposit of ware continued in between NE. by N. and SE. by S., sometimes single 

 vessels, sometimes a number together. There was no deposit at the center, the last 

 vessel found being 8 feet from it, and but few were met with for some feet farther back. 



The vessels, sixty-two in all, whole, nearly so or in a condition to permit recon- 

 struction, all show the basal perforation. As a rule, the ware was inferior and deco- 

 ration, when present, was usually the complicated stamp, often carelessly applied. 



The feature of the mound in respect to earthenware was the presence of many 

 flat bases, even on pots and bowls, where the bases are usually rounded. As usual, 

 numbers of fragments of parts of vessels and whole vessels, crushed together in inex- 

 tricable masses, lay with whole vessels or with those broken but keeping their form 

 until removed. 



