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CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



But three arrow points were met with ; one superficially, two with original 

 burials. 



With the lowest layer of bodies were two fragments of tobacco pipes of clay. 

 (Figs. 112 and 113). 



Fig. 112 



Fig. 113 



A somewhat similar fragment was found at considerable depth in the adjoin- 

 ing shell-heap. 1 



Six inches from the surface, near the cervical vertebrae of a woman, were a 

 -considerable number of small white glass beads. 



One foot down, with the skeleton of a child of about 6 years of age, were a 

 pair of shears; a sheet of glass 3*5 inches by 5T2 inches, iridescent from age; an 

 ornament of loosely woven copper or brass wire ; a number of friable beads of 

 glass ; a glass button placed in a small cardium, and a large bead of pressed clear 

 glass. 



Near by, 1 foot below the surface, singularly enough with the skeleton of a 

 woman, were an iron implement with blade 8 inches in length ; an iron ferule ; a flat 

 implement of iron 2 inches by 5 inches, and two iron fish spears 7 inches and 9 - 75 

 inches in length respectively. All were badly corroded. 



Eighteen inches below the surface, with a male skeleton, was a knife of iron 

 -or of steel on which the bone handle still remained. 



Pottery. — We have more than once had occasion to speak of fragments of pot- 

 tery buried with the dead, upon which the shape of the arrow head had been in- 

 tentionally conferred. This custom, we have noticed, prevailed where, probably 

 through poverty, little else in the way of implements or ornaments was interred. 

 It was especially noticeable at Mulberry Mound where not a single vessel of pot- 

 tery, whole or in fragments, was found during the entire excavation (Figs. 114 

 and 115). 



American Naturalist, August, 1898. 



