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17. Skeleton of adolescent of about 14 years of age, 3 feet down. It lay on 

 the left side. The skull had rolled on to the chest. Certain epiphyses were separ- 

 ated about 6 inches from their respective shafts. 



18. Beginning at one foot below the surface and extending to a depth of from 

 8 to 10 inches was a confused mass of human remains about 4 feet in length and 3 

 feet in breadth. At one end were eleven crania together. Immediately above this 

 deposit were four imperforate shell drinking cups and three polished stone chisels 

 having a much flatter section than the ordinary "celt." With the remains were 

 two pins of shell, the larger 4 inches in length. 



The entire surface of the mound was covered with oyster shells to an average 

 depth of 6 inches, but above this deposit the shells dipped down into the sand coming 

 in contact with the upper surface of the layer of bones. It was evident that this 

 was a species of grave made after the completion of the mound, though, likely 

 enough, of about the same period, since, as we shall see, similar confused masses of 

 bones were present in the mound at depths clearly showing their original deposit 

 (see section of grave, Fig. 30). 





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Fig. 30. — Section of grave 18. Walker Mound. 



19. A grave similar in style of construction to the preceding. Its depth from 

 the surface was 26 inches. It extended in on the same plane a distance of 5 feet 

 with a breadth at first of 2 feet, broadening to 4 feet and narrowing to 2 feet at the 

 end. It contained a mass of human bones, some calcined, and a few bones of a 

 lower animal unaffected by fire. With the human bones were numbers of shell 

 beads of various sizes. 



With the bones was an interesting pathological specimen 1 consisting of a 

 human femur showing material shortening through fracture. This example of bone- 

 setting — or rather the lack of it — by the aborigines is shown in Fig. 31. 



This deposit of bones had, on the same plane, contiguous to it a pen or pyre, 

 constructed of logs 3 to 8 inches in diameter, which were charred through and 

 through. The depth of this curious pen was 9 inches ; its length, 32 inches ; its 

 width was not exactly determined owing to caving of sand. Within this pyre were 

 calcined human remains in fragments. 



1 Now at the Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 



