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general rounded form of a mound. Two feet below the top was found a 

 layer of cedar trunks and boughs, somewhat regularly placed, inserted in 

 the sides of the grave and supporting the superposed stones, which were of 

 various sizes, from those of a few pounds to those of a quarter of a ton in 

 weight. A space about 6 feet long, 4 feet broad, and 4 feet deep had been 

 left below these cedar boughs, and in this were found the two skeletons 

 numbered 959 and 964 in the Army Medical Museum catalogue, being 

 those of a pappoose and a squaw, respectively. A buffalo-robe enveloped 

 the skeletons, which still retained much of the clothing in which the bodies 

 were buried. Around the skeletons, outside of the buffalo-robe, was a 

 heterogeneous collection of tin pans, tin cups, knives, forks, spoons, 

 blankets, and other articles of domestic use, with a looking-glass and care- 

 fully disposed piece of vermilion, for personal adornment in the Happy 

 Hunting Ground. 



The skeleton of the squaw lay underneath, on its back, with the feet 

 pointing nearly directly to the west, and head slightly declined on its left 

 side; this declination was evidently merely a result of superposition, the 

 weight of the pappoose on the breast serving to deflect the head from the 

 upright position. The covering of the skeleton of the squaw had mostly 

 fallen to decay, while that of the pappoose was comparatively well pre- 

 served. The pappoose, from the nature of its burial, was the most 

 interesting skeleton secured. It lay, tightly swathed in a wicker-hood 

 peculiar to the Indians, on its back on the breast of the squaw, with feet 

 pointing westward like the squaw's. A neat little pillow, 6 inches long 

 by 4 wide, and about an inch thick, lay tinder its head, within the hood. 

 A blue and white checked cotton shirt, covered its body, and a red flannel 

 blanket, of originally fine texture, enwrapped the whole skeleton. A string 

 of blue and white beads was about its neck, with a couple of nickel cents 

 suspended on a string. I regret to state that this small coinage was stolen 

 from the hood, as it lay outside my tent door in Beaver. My impression is 

 that one of the cents bore the date of 1856, so recent a date that the story 

 of the Mormons, to the effect that the skeletons were those of Pah-Utes, 

 who had died from natural causes, appears entirely worthy of credence. 

 The imperfect preservation of the wicker-hood and the envelopes of the 



