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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Fig. 67. — Detail of John White's drawing of a "tombe" 

 or death house seen along the North Carolina coast in 

 1585. Note how the extended position of the bodies corre- 

 sponds to that of the skeletons found in the ossuary 

 (fig. 69). 



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Fig. 68. — Fragment of Indian skull containing mud dauber nest. Access to 

 the nest was through the opening for the spinal cord as indicated by arrow. 

 The presence of the nest in the skull proves that the latter, in the dried state, 

 was exposed in the open before burial. 



