120 The American Naturalist. [Februiy, 
two generations of relic-hunters, it still yields ample recompense 
in the form of beads, pipe-stems, pottery, and other implements 
to any one who will take the pains to search for them. On and 
near this village site so many iron tomahawks were found by the 
early settlers that they were of commercial value as old iron, and 
were by no means an insignificant source from which the black- 
smiths derived the material for horseshoes and other articles of 
farm use. 
The writer had made several visits to this place, and had gath- 
ered from the surface a considerable number of relics. In the 
spring of 1885 a young man of the locality exhumed a skeleton 
with which were buried two or three silver rings, and in Septem- 
ber following the writer opened a grave almost adjoining the 
first one, with such rich results that he has thought it worthy of a 
descriptive article. 
_ The graves were situated at the extreme western edge of the 
hill, four or five rods beyond the field in which the relics were s0 
plenty, and a few feet before the slope, already begun, becameso 
steep that ascent was difficult. aot 
The writer, availing himself of the work of excavation which 
had been done in the spring, dug into the side of the grave, 
reaching, after a short time, a woodchuck hole, which for- 
tunately led him to another skeleton. This skeleton, whose. 
immature bones and teeth showed that it had belonged a 
a person between sixteen and twenty years old, was 1P ~ 
crouching attitude, with elbows at the sides and knees drawn T , 
to meet them, characteristic of Indian burial. Strange to $ay, n ; 
ever, the skeleton was turned head downwards, a circu 
which has never been duplicated in the writer’s experience. = 
One of the first. objects exhumed was a bone head-comb, ee a 
dently either of European manufacture, or an imitation by T 
Indians of some similar ornament which they had seen the tm 
women use. Several of the teeth of the comb had pee 
broken, but otherwise it was well preserved. At the top of ae : 
comb there is a rudely cut figure of a man standing and rest > 
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his hand on the shoulder of another person who is on hor ak 
Beside the skeleton was a partially overturned brass kettle, 
