. Bulletin. Ethnology. 52 BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bl-LL. 37 outline of a grave, others inclined at various angles as if a cover had fallen in. The tibiae, though in better condition than the other bones, were much swollen as if from rheumatism. Beside the pelvis were fragments of an infant's skull. West of south 16 feet from the center, 4 feet above the original sui-face, were decayed pieces of skull and of bones of the feet, about 5 feet apart, with no other bones between them (grave B). A flat stone lay over the skull and several such stones over the bones of the feet; the latter, thus
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 52 BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bl-LL. 37 outline of a grave, others inclined at various angles as if a cover had fallen in. The tibiae, though in better condition than the other bones, were much swollen as if from rheumatism. Beside the pelvis were fragments of an infant's skull. West of south 16 feet from the center, 4 feet above the original sui-face, were decayed pieces of skull and of bones of the feet, about 5 feet apart, with no other bones between them (grave B). A flat stone lay over the skull and several such stones over the bones of the feet; the latter, thus protected from percolating water, were tolerably sound, even to the phalanges. Only a few teeth, not much worn, were found with the skull. A round-bottomed pot of about a quart capacity had been placed upright by the right side of the chest. At the left side of the head, at a slightly lower level, was an inverted " cocoanut pot" of about half a gallon capacity. Under the feet of this skel- eton, at a depth of 2 feet, lay the upper portion of an adult's skull; it was not con- nected with a burial, but was lying loose in the earth. On the same level as this piece of skull, 6 feet northwest of it, was the large clay pipe seen in figure 13. Nothing else was found about either the skull or the pipe. Directly under the head of grave A were the teeth of two adults, one set worn nearly to the roots, the other set worn scarcely at all; a foot east of these were parts of two other sets sim- ilarly denoting different ages; traces of bone were found extending toward the west. All these remains were in a grave only a few inches deep. Distant 20 feet slightly south of west fi'om the center, in a grave (C) extending less than a foot below the surface, was the skeleton of a child about two years of age. In a similar shallow grave (D), 18 feet east of the center, was an extended adult skeleton, lying on the back, with the head toward the south; the skull, which was lying on the left
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