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siderable part f this plate and possibly some bones, as a single molar only was 

 present. 



Burial No. 28. — At the base of a pit beginning at or near the surface, which 

 extended through the upper dark band and a short distance below the base, were 

 remains of what had been a wooden box about 2 feet square. Little more than 

 dust remained. Badly rusted nails and small clamps of iron were present. Within 

 the remains of the box, packed together, were : two skulls ; four femurs ; four 

 tibiae ; two scapulas ; one clavicle ; certain ribs and vertebrae ; also glass beads. 



Burial No. 29. — Skull and certain bones of an adult with some bones of a 

 child, without the skull. With these were thirty large shell beads and three shell 

 hairpins, the shanks partly decayed. 



Burial No. 30. — Under an inverted bowl in fragments were : a small bit of 

 shell and certain milk teeth ; bitumen ; twelve silver buttons ; glass beads ; an 

 undated silver coin of Spanish-Mexico, which, we were informed at the United 

 States Mint, was struck by Charles and Joanna between 1521 and 1550 A.D. ; 

 an iron spike ; a small piece of sheet brass or copper with stamped decoration, 

 evidently European. The bowl, which has been pieced together, is of black ware ; 

 has a maximum 'diameter of 15.4 inches, a depth of 6.75 inches. This bowl, whose 

 decoration is much like that of Vessel No. 53 (Fig. 109) from the Cemetery near 

 Point Washington, has been sent to the Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City. We could not determine as to perforation through the absence of a part of 

 the base. 



Bitumen, as the reader is doubtless aware, was used by the aborigines as a sort 

 of cement to hold in place in their sockets knives and the like. We shall have 

 occasion again to speak of bitumen in describing, the mound near Maester creek, 

 East bay, which is not far from -the ancient settlement of Charruco, where Cabeca 

 de Yaca went to live after leaving the aborigines on Santa Rosa Island. 



Burial No. 31. — Over the skull of an adult lay a circular dish of black ware in 

 fragments. The rim is notched and a 



single incised line runs around the inside 

 about 3 inches below the margin. This 

 dish, imperforate as to its base, was sent 

 to the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 

 Mass., where it has been carefully pieced 

 together. We are indebted to Professor 

 Putnam for photographs of this dish and 

 of all vessels which, sent to the Museum 

 from time to time in a fragmentary con- 

 dition have there been put together. 



Below the dish, lying on its side, was 

 an imperforate vase, having a semi-glo- 

 bular body and slightly expanding neck 

 with a diameter at aperture of 5.6 inches, a height of 4.25 inches (Fig. 3). 



Fig. 3.— Vessel with Burial No. 

 Point. (Half s 



This 



