394 EOCK-GBAVE AKD MOUNDS IN UTAH. 



grave, Beaver, Utah. The particulars of the burial and finding of this 

 skeleton differ but little from those attaching to Nos. 959 arid 964, already 

 described. The Mormons give Nabbynanch as the name of this brave. 



The rock-pile, from one end of which the skeleton was taken, was 

 about 25 feet long, 20 feet broad, and 10 feet high, with the longitudinal 

 axis pointing north-northeast. It lay on the same hill-side, about 5 feet 

 above the grave of the pappoose and squaw already mentioned, the lower 

 edges of the two graves merging into each other. The southwestern corner 

 alone was opened, and the same character of structure discovered as in Nos. 

 959 and 964; cedar trunks and boughs supported the rocks and inclosed 

 the open space in which the skeleton was found The body lay on its 

 right side, with knees slightly bent and feet pointing in a northwest 

 direction. Decomposed clothing, an old gun-barrel fallen from its stock, a 

 bridle bit of Spanish make, several bullets, a cloth containing a mass of 

 red paint, and other relics were found near the skeleton. 



965. Cranium, with part of a skeleton, found in the outer edge of an 

 ancient mound, Provo, Utah, about a foot below the level of the surround- 

 ing fields. Of unknown date and tribe. 



Northwest of Provo, on the level fields mentioned in describing No. 

 962, halfway from the town to Utah Lake, is a field containing a number 

 of mounds more or less perfectly preserved ; some are entirely untouched, 

 except on the outer edges, where the Mormons' grain patches encroach upon 

 them ; others have been almost completely leveled with the surrounding 

 field. The skull had been dug up by a farmer while engaged in digging the 

 shallow irrigating ditch, and presented to Lieutenant Wheeler on his arrival 

 in Provo. Guided to the spot where it was exhumed by the farmer himself, 

 digging was commenced where he directed, and the remainder of the skele- 

 ton was brought to light after a few minutes' work. Mounds 1 and 2 are 

 higher and less disturbed than Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6, which are almost entirely 

 demolished. The excavation made in mound No. 1 was continued for 

 about 12 feet from the outer limit, with a breadth of about 8 feet. The 

 mound was 45 feet in width, 60 feet in length, and 10 feet high in the 

 middle. A few pieces of pottery and broken bones were also found. 

 Across the shallow ditch, and only a few inches below the surface of the 



