. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 698 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. tlieir mannfacture are shown in Fig. 17, which represents the end of the metatarsal bone of the elk found in mound isTo. 6. A wedge was driven into the opening at the end, and the bone split in two aloug the middle line, each half afterward being converted into an implement by scraping and rubbing. Ten or Fig. 17. Bone of elk, from mound near Naples, lU. twelvcof theSC large boue awls WCre found in mound
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 698 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. tlieir mannfacture are shown in Fig. 17, which represents the end of the metatarsal bone of the elk found in mound isTo. 6. A wedge was driven into the opening at the end, and the bone split in two aloug the middle line, each half afterward being converted into an implement by scraping and rubbing. Ten or Fig. 17. Bone of elk, from mound near Naples, lU. twelvcof theSC large boue awls WCre found in mound No. 1, sticking in the sand around a single skeleton. One of these is painted red and retains its brilliant color. A small bone awl, represented in the following cut, half size, was found in mound No. JL 2 Fig. 18. Bone awl, from mound near Naples, 111. Lying at right angles to the two skeletons already described in mound No. 3 were six or eight others, all with their feet to the west, except one, which was at least 15 inches below the surface sand, stretched out at full length, with the head to the northwest and feet to the southeast. No object of any kind was found with these skeletons. The bones were greatly decayed, and the skulls so far gone as to render the fragments almost worthless for any scientific purposes. The posterior portions had been much distorted, probably by the pressure of the earth. The frag- mentary frontal of one bone is remarkable for the heavy superciliary ridges and retreating forehead, while another has the bone of the nose almost perfect, showing the feature to have been very prominent. The latter specimen is very similar in this particular to Fig. G5 in Foster's "Prehis- toric ; The comparison of tlie Dunleith mound skull with the Neanderthal skull in that figure seems to be very unfair to the former. By elevating the posterior portion of the fragment until the skull as- sumes a normal position, the difference between it and th
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