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Burial No. lJf. — This was the partly flexed burial of an adult male. 

 The body had been placed on the back with the head to the south- 

 west. The legs were flexed to the pelvis on the right, as shown in 

 plate 90, b. The radius and ulna were twisted, showing that the 

 palms were placed downward, so that the right forearm and hand lay 

 under the right and left femora. The left forearm and hand lay 

 under the pelvis and the proximal end of the left femora. To the 

 east of the skeleton three large thin limestone rocks, set on edge, 

 formed a border. To the north there were three smaller stones on 

 edge, and in the center and 10 inches above the burial there was a 

 flat stone laid horizontally. Along the southern side of the grave 

 the rocks near the head were somewhat on edge. This platform is 

 shown in plate 91, b. The burial had been removed when the picture 

 was taken. A sandstone hammer stone, badly weathered, was found 

 between the feet of the skeleton. A triangular rock was placed over 

 the lumbar vertebra. On the rock platform, 6 inches above the head, 

 was a broken hammerstone. 



Burial No. IS. — The skeletal remains of a partially flexed adult 

 buried on the right side with the head to the east was found only 4 

 inches below the present mound surface. The preservation of the 

 bones was fair. No artifacts were in association. 



Burial No. 16. — Twenty-two inches above the original ground sur- 

 face the skeletal remains of a partially flexed adult were found. The 

 head was to the east. The preservation of the bones was fair. No 

 artifacts were found in association with the burial. 



There were no graves of children found in the mound. 



Pottery 



Only a few sherds were found in this mound. They were sand 

 tempered, thin, black, and very hard. They were decorated with a 

 stamped design, which had been partially obliterated by troweling 

 when the clay was still plastic, as illustrated in plate 91, a. One small 

 sherd of plain ware, shell tempered, was found. 



Artifacts 



This burial mound, which contained 16 burials, was devoid of arti- 

 facts, with the exception of the curved-base steatite monitor pipe 

 shown in plate 90, a. This pipe, found some 12 inches above Burial 

 No. 6, was broken in many pieces which were scattered over a small 

 area. This suggested ceremonial killing at the time of interment. 

 Not all parts of the pipe were recovered, although a careful search 

 was made for the remaining fragments. Its extreme dimensions 

 were : length 7.1 inches, breadth 2.1 inches, height 2.6 inches. It was 



