REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, 1922 4I 
It was under such conditions that the work of excavating was 
undertaken. | 
After a month’s work in the intense heat, interspersed with ter- 
rific rains and wind storms, thirty-eight burials were uncovered all 
on the side hill and ranging from within 4 feet of the top to a dis- 
tance of 30 feet down. 
Thirty burials were from previous tree or scaffold mortuary dis- 
posals ; that is, the bodies had been wrapped in skins and furs until 
skeletonized, when they were removed and buried. The scattered 
and displaced bones in these burials were evidence of this. With 
such burials there were only a few shell beads. In most cases a 
deg had been sacrificed in such graves and buried either over or just 
to one side of the bundled bones. Some of the bundle burials were 
of infants but most were original interments and with these were 
sometimes two dogs. Four of the adult burials were original inter- 
ments, and in each of these the skeleton was flexed in the usual 
aboriginal method. Except in one instance there were artifacts with 
‘each original adult burial. 
Scattered through the grave area were fire or feast pits, some of 
them just above the graves and others a little to one side, as if there 
had been watch fires into which the remnants of the death feast or 
grave watch had been thrown. There was little in these pits except 
fragments of animal bones — deer, raccoon, turtle, bear and beaver 
— and an occasional hickory nut or acorn. There was one exception 
to this —a pit containing several quarts of charred hickory nuts. 
Artifacts were rare in bundle burial graves, but in the flexed 
burials there was always at least a bead or two, save in the case of 
a female interment. 
In pit 22-23, found July 13th, within 12 inches of the surface was 
found a broken skeleton apparently lying on its face with its knees 
drawn up under it, and its hands before its face. This burial was 
near the top of the terrace and directly under the stopping place of 
the auto trucks which were loaded with sand. This probably 
accounts for the crushed condition of the skelton. The side hill in 
which the skeleton lay was “ pocketed” and at the bottom of the 
grave more than a dozen grooved sinkers were found, the grooves 
being the long way of the oval pebbles. The skeleton was of an 
adult male of perhaps 50 years. The lower jawbone alone of any 
part of the skull remained intact. On the back of the head was a 
bone bar amulet and just below it and resting between the shoulders 
was a broken two holed gorget of gypsum. In the right eye socket 
was a notched arrowhead. 
