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overlooking the stream. -A few inches below the surface the 
neck bones were found, and below these the remainder of the 
skeleton, with the exception of the bones of the hands and feet. 
The skull being wanting, it could not be determined whether the 
‘remains were those of an Indian or of a white man, but in either 
case the sepulture was peculiarly aboriginal. A careful exhuma- 
tion and critical examination by Mr. K. disclosed the fact that 
around the lower extremities of the body had been placed a 
number of large stones, which revealed traces of fire, in con- 
junction with charred wood, and the bones of the feet had un- 
doubtedly been consumed. This fact makes it appear reasonably 
certain that the subject had been executed, probably as a prisoner 
of war. A pit had been dug, in which he was placed erect and 
a fire kindled around him. Then he had been buried alive, or, at 
least, if he did not survive the fiery ordeal, his body was imbedded 
in the earth, with the exception of his head, which was left pro- 
truding above the surface. As no traces of the cranium could be 
found, it seems probable that the head had either been burned or 
severed from the body and removed, or else left a prey to raven- 
ous birds. The Skeleton, which would have measured fully six 
feet in height, was undoubtedly that ofa man. This forms an 
interesting example of the cruelty practiced by the aboriginal 
tribes on their prisoners. In the neighborhood of this grave 
many stone implements have been found and the remains of ex- 
tensive Lenni Lenape encampments can be traced.—£. A. Barber. 
AnrTHRopoLoGIcAL News.—Mr. A. F. Berlin, Reading, Pa., calls 
attention to polished arrow-points similar to those mentioned by 
; uire in our last number. It may be that these so- 
called arrow-points were knives. Major Powell sent to the Na- 
tional Museum, three years ago, a collection of Pai-Ute flint 
knives glued in wooden handles, the blades of which would be 
taken for arrow-points. They are figured and described in Dr. 
Rau’s work on the Archxological Collection of the U.S. National 
Museum, No. 287 of Contributions to Knowledge, page 2. : 
The circular issued by the Smithsonian Institution recently, 
calling for information relating to the permanent archzeological 
remains of North America, has met with a hearty response from 
many quarters. Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead has prepared a revised 
chart of the Portsmouth Works at the mouth of the Ohio River, 
containing many more details than plate XXVII of Squier and 
Davis’ work. Other enthusiastic archeologists have promised 
to do the same for their respective counties. As the descrip- 
_ tions are received they are filed away in the name of the con- 
tributor, who will receive, in the summing up, credit for the work 
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on Mr. Frank C. Cushing, the enthusiastic young assistant in the 3 
Ethnological tment of the National Museum, has recently 
i d an old soapstone quarry on the farm of Mr. John B. 
