6 H. Gillman—Indian Mounds in Michigan. 
(No. 1, Mound 8). Some of the bones first taken out overlay 
this, and decayed roots of the oak, as thick as a man’s arm, 
stretched above it. The other bones belonging to the body 
appear dwarfish. It was buried with the head to the east, and 
the legs seem to have been drawn up, and not stretched out at 
full length. On removing these remains, we found, immedi- 
ately underneath, a third body, placed so closely that the skull 
of the upper rested on that of the lower. At the head was a 
large quantity of the bones of birds and fishes, in a compact 
mass, as though once held in some wrapping or vessel which 
had decayed. These were pressed against the skulls, so that in 
some cases they adhered to them, and are, no doubt, the re- 
to pieces. This body was buried with the head to the eastward. 
The roots of the oak tree had penetrated the bones in many 
cases, the long roots presenting some Lasoee ls examples of 
this, as the roots in their natural growth had first filled, then 
burst, the bones, so that in several iemidces the parts of the 
bone surrounded the now decayed root, beng in it. Such 
pieces as held together are forw his tree, which evi- 
dently belonged to the second srowth of timber, was, I think, 
a scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea Wang.), as the majority of the 
ood covering the southern half of the mound is of this spe- 
cies, together with the white pine. The decayed stump was 
two feet in diameter at the base, and at one foot above the 
ground divided into three tranks or main branches, each nine 
— in diameter. These had been cut down, apparently, 
ears ago; and as between the first and two Febeacjueni 
posse must have occurred, in all probability, some lapse of 
time, and the oak must have sprung up, reac its ue 
en cut down, and its stump finally have decayed long a 
ward, some slight idea may be had as to the age of the first 
urial 
The trench was now opened to the oak stamp, when, from 
directly beneath it, skull No. 3 was taken out with the accom- 
panying bones. Upon this skull lay a plate of mica, five 
four inches, of a quadrilateral shape, the corners worn off. nN 
bble of water-worn coral rested upon the mica, as if to keep 
it in place. About the neck of the deceased a necklace of re- 
markable construction had Le age a = hung. This un- 
common ornament was composed of teeth of the moose, 
finely perforated at the roots, sae acimaes with wrought beads 
. ea r of different lengths, and the perforated bones ae birds 
a fine green color, the stain, in the few pieces preserved, 
cae wouderlaly fresh. Small portions of the cord to which 
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