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All such burials were very carefully made with the association 

 of fire and sacrificial earths as above noted. In several instances the 

 earth immediately around the burial had been trampled or tamped 

 very hard about the body when it was placed in position. From the 

 condition of the bones, particularly those of the head, it would seem 

 that such great pressure had been used in this tamping process that 

 the bones had been displaced and in some cases even crushed. Not- 

 able examples of this type of burial are shown in plate V. 



In practically all instances the skeletons faced toward the south 

 and away from the lake. One exception to this rule was the burial 

 shown in plate XVI, fig. 1, near the top of the conical mound No. L 

 This skeleton was placed with the head toward the south and faced 

 the lake. Judging from the somewhat better preservation of the 

 bones and from other features it probably represents an intrusive 

 burial of a later people. This was also the only skeleton lying on 

 its left side. Another exception was the relatively recent burial 

 shown in fig. 2 of this same plate. This also faced the lake, but 

 lay on its right side. All the deeper burials were placed on the right 

 side and faced toward the south. 



These deeper burials were evidently usually those of high digni- 

 taries since they were attended by much ceremonial stratification 

 and frequently by what appears to be subsidiary burials. In effigy 

 mound No. 3 the main burial was that of a middle aged man. He 

 was placed in the center of the shoulder position of the mound, and 

 on a carefully prepared stratum near the bottom level. This burial 

 is shown in plate V, fig. 1. Very exactly placed at a higher level 

 and in the relative positions shown in text fig. 5, were the two sub- 

 sidiary burials shown in plate V, fig. 2. One of these was that of a 

 middle aged man while the other was that of a very young woman. 



FLEXURE 



All skeletons buried in the flesh show flexure of the extremities. 

 There were two types of flexure of the lower limbs. The skeletons 

 in mound No. 1 have the legs sharply flexed, bringing the heels 

 tightly against the hips. So strong is this flexure, as shown in 

 plate XVI, that it seems probable that it could have been produced 

 only by specially binding the limbs in this position. In the burial 

 shown in fig. 1 of this plate the legs are flexed back so as to form 



