Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey . ipes; Brass kettle; Five flints;Two mirrors I 7 W-E Flexed NW d c? 43 Previously dug SW-NE Extended Left NW c? One bone and one antler flaking tool; Bone awl 45 NW 9 46 I 4 SW-NE Previously dugDisturbed 9 c? 48 i 5 Bones decomposedDisturbed AdultChild c? Small brass kettle; Glass beads 52 Adult 9 S3 1 4 SW-NE Extended Back c? Two shell figures of fish; Four brass bracelets and eleven fragment;.; Gla, -(.., and metal beads 54 cf Child 56 8 Flexed Right Adult 9 57 SE c? Pewter pipe with animal on bowl 58 Extended Back Child Fused
Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey . ipes; Brass kettle; Five flints;Two mirrors I 7 W-E Flexed NW d c? 43 Previously dug SW-NE Extended Left NW c? One bone and one antler flaking tool; Bone awl 45 NW 9 46 I 4 SW-NE Previously dugDisturbed 9 c? 48 i 5 Bones decomposedDisturbed AdultChild c? Small brass kettle; Glass beads 52 Adult 9 S3 1 4 SW-NE Extended Back c? Two shell figures of fish; Four brass bracelets and eleven fragment;.; Gla, -(.., and metal beads 54 cf Child 56 8 Flexed Right Adult 9 57 SE c? Pewter pipe with animal on bowl 58 Extended Back Child Fused metal 59 1 8 Flexed Right SE Adult 9 Heel-lt riguie of shell; Metal chain; Cylindrical shell 6o I 1 Extended Back a Fragment ot earthenware bowl 62 i 3l o Disturbed Right SE i hild 9 Small --licM beads 63 I 6 Lelt NW Adult Right SE 65 Disturbed Back Child 66 7 SW-NE Extended i hild Shell gorget; Bear-tooth; Fragments of ironTwo pottery pipes; Flint and steel 68 to Flexed Right SE Adult 9 j direction of the : CONTR. MUS. AMER. INDIAN VOL. II, NO. 1, PL. IX. BIRDS AND TUBULAR BEADS OF SHELL FOUND IN THE CEMETERY BY MR BURSON BELL HEYE-PEPPER—EXPLORATION OF A MUNSEE CEMETERY 3 I shell, from one and a half to two inches in diameter, quartered with doublelines, having the devices of dots between them. This kind was doublyperforated in the plane of the circle. In Notes on the Iroquois, by the same author, we have a much fullerdescription. He says that this article is generally found in the formof an exact circle, rarely a little ovate. It has been ground down andrepolished, apparently, from the conch. Its diameter varies from three-fourths of an inch to two inches; thickness, two-tenths in the center,thinning out a little towards the edges. It is doubly perforated. It isfigured on the face and its reverse, with two parallel latitudinal and twolongitudinal lines crossing in its center, and dividing the area into fourequal parts. Its circumference is marked with an inner circle, cor
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