94 



CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



times by Indians of Virginia. 1 We are told that certain gorgets sometimes sold for 

 three or four buckskins already dressed.- 



Excavations on the southern, eastern and western slopes of the mound showed 

 large numbers of bones entirely unassociated, and in addition burials in anatomical 

 order with certainty one of the bunched variety. This interment consisted of the 

 cranium with one femur immediately below it. At a short distance on the same 

 level, lay the lower jaw, the chin towards the skull. Below this jaw was a 

 humerus, while on the other side of the cranium, parallel to each other, were a 

 radius, an ulna and a humerus. With one burial in anatomical order were two 

 steel or iron fish spears, a chisel of the same metal with a curved cutting edge, and 

 a small earthenware pot, undecorated and somewhat crushed. All these lay near 

 the cranium, as did a large number of glass beads with one of shell. With another 

 skeleton lay the blade of a knife ; a portion of an implement resembling an adze ; 

 two chisels with curved edge ; two fragmentary chisels ; a fish spear and a spike, 

 all of iron or steel and all greatly affected b}^ rust. 



HUMAN REMAINS. 



Crania. — A number of crania were saved. 



Humeri. — Of 37 humeri, 13 were perforated, a percentage of 35. 



Femurs. 



Index. 









Minimum 



Maximum 



Oscillation 





Total. 

 10 



Average Index. 

 112 



Index. 

 93-9 



Index. 



138- 



Exponent; 



Male 



9-4 



Female 



2 



108-4 



107-8 



109 3 





Uncertain 



3 



107-4 



102-3 



112 5 



3-6 



Length and Torsion of Humeri. 



Measurements are given in mm. 



Sex . 



Side. 

 Right 



Length. 



Torsion. 





Male 





313 



132° 



Not Perforated. 



i 





ii 



330 



129° 





i 





ii 



u 



297 

 312 



117° 

 135° 





" 





Lett 



297 



130° 





1 1 





r 



316 



137° 





1 " History and Present State of Virginia," cited by C. C. Jones, page -502. 



2 " History of Carolina," cited by C. C. Jones, page 503. 



