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to some extent, by the Iroquois, In burials after exposure on scaffolds, 
however, a dozen or twenty bodies were usually collected and interred 
almost without relics and in a very limited area. Other burying 
places were noted in the same field, but at much greater distances than 
usual, 
While it was impossible to ascertain the exact attitude in which the 
bodies were laid, all of the heads pointed toward the west, and the 
mummy position, so frequently noted in graves of the Iroquois, was not 
apparent. Of the three skeletons, one was conspicuous for its develop- 
ment, though not for its height. The femurs showed a “third tro- 
chanter” almost as plainly as do those of the horse, while, in most 
human skeletons, this projection has become merely a roughening of 
the bone. The skull showed the lines of muscular attachment as I 
have never seen on another, and, in general, it was evident that this 
Warrior must have been a person of tremendous physical development. 
‘The comparatively open sutures of the skull showed that he was still 
below middle age, though fully matured. The second skeleton was 
that of an adult of moderate build and apparently older than the first. 
‘The third skeleton, which was very incomplete, was that of a small 
child. The molars, which are usually cut in the sixth year, were not 
quite out-of the bone of the jaws. 
At the neck of the first skeleton, so as to discolor the upper part of 
the breast bone and the first ribs, was a string of brass beads. These 
had oxidized, and the verdegris had preserved the leathern string on 
which they were worn, so that the loose single bow-knot, tied many 
‘years ago, has remained intact. A number of red stone beads had 
fallen away from the neck and lay at the level of the bottom of the 
grave. - These were square on section, of about an inch in length, and 
Some were nicked or rudely ornamented. They appeared to be made 
of the western pipe-clay ; at any rate, they were of material not found 
for many miles about the site of the grave. A pipe-stem, of the clay 
of the vicinity, was found near this skeleton, and at the feet was a brass 
kettle. At the feet of the second skeleton was another kettle and part 
of an iron knife, rusted almost to disintegration. With the child’s 
skeleton was found a brass sleigh-bell. Besides these relics must be 
counted the kettle plowed out of the grave in the spring. 
Within the kettle found near the feet of the second skeleton was a 
mass of vegetable fibre resembling: moss. A similar mass found in a 
kettle buried with a skeleton at the village site mentioned, showed a 
right-angled crossing of some bands of fibres, and strongly suggested 
-that the decayed vegetable tissue had been a basket or some similar 
plaited receptacle. 
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