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shell drinking-cup found with the skeleton of a child. Certain sheets of mica, one 

 with a small circular hole in the center, were found near earthenware vessels, and 

 were probably put into the mound ceremonially, as were the vessels. 



Toward the center of the mound, somewhat above the base, was an area per- 

 haps about twelve feet square, consisting of masses of charcoal, over and under 

 burials, and in one place bark seemingly with no mark of fire, two thicknesses in 

 one place, three, in another. This layer of bark, 40 inches long and about 2 feet 

 wide, had at one end, at right angles to it, the remains of a log about 6 inches in 

 diameter and about 3 feet in length. Both bark and log were little more than dust. 

 This bark layer lay above a skeleton. The burials under charcoal and under bark 

 were not contiguous, but being on the same plane and near each other, it is prob- 

 able this area, with its flexed burials, was created at one time and served as a 

 nucleus for the mound. 



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Fig. 131. — Vessel No. 1. Mound in Davis' Field. (About three-iiuaiters size.) 



