422 THE SENECA NATION 



All bones and many of the articles were badly preserved. 

 The bones were so badly decayed that in many cases it was 

 impossible to identify even the massive long bones, and the 

 more fragile bones were entirely decayed. All hollow bones 

 and articles, as skulls and kettles, were crushed flat, and the 

 clay was so tenacious that articles would break before the 

 enclosing clay. 



The Graves. 



No. Depth and Posture. Articles. 



1. Bones scattered and badly decayed. Scraps of brass 



throughout grave. 



2. A dismembered body. Pelvis and At pelvis two brass 

 legbones on N. edge of grave, but kettles, bone awl, 

 not in position. Skull on S. edge worked phalanx, iron 

 with heap of all bones of upper por- knife, paint. 



tion of body, all on bark floor of At skull, brass oval 

 grave. Articles at pelvis and beside box wrapped in fine 

 skull. fur, gun flints and 



awl. 



3-4 Double grave. Both flexed. Sides At pelvis of No. 3, 



of grave well defined, forming a wampum, around 



rectangle, 42" by 36", Bark on east neck long red glass 



and south sides and bottom Skele- beads in two strings, 



ton No. 3, young woman on side, around wrists a wide 



fllexed, head west, face north, leg brass bracelet and an 



bones mingled with No. 4 iron wire bracelet. 



No. 4, old man, flexed, on back, At feet of No. 4 a 

 legs drawn up sideways and mingled deposit of flint and 

 with No. 3 . points with two ant- 



ler flaking tools and 

 bear's tooth, all on 

 bark and covered 

 with a sheet of brass. 



Behind head a clay 

 pipe and iron awl. 



Between skrdls of No. 

 3 and 4, a clay kettle 

 and a deer's bone. 

 Small bones in kettle. 



Burned corn in soil 

 over grave. 



