. Paragraphs from a collectors' note-book . Nelson, Neb., July 8, 1908. GoUectors ■Mote=boot? lii CONTENTS. A Prehistoric BURIAL Site 1 COMANCHE County, Texas, Relics 5 Gravel Pit Find 21 A Camp Site 25 Collecting Trips 31 To Beginners 49 A PRE-HISTORIC BURIALSITE In the summer of 1905 myselfand wife, accompanied by herbrother and my brother, spent aday investigating a pre-historicburial site some six miles south-west of Comanche, Texas, onWillow Branch, a tributary ofMercers Creek, The burial places cover quitean area of the hill-side, and a feware on the level ground acrossthe Branch to the
. Paragraphs from a collectors' note-book . Nelson, Neb., July 8, 1908. GoUectors ■Mote=boot? lii CONTENTS. A Prehistoric BURIAL Site 1 COMANCHE County, Texas, Relics 5 Gravel Pit Find 21 A Camp Site 25 Collecting Trips 31 To Beginners 49 A PRE-HISTORIC BURIALSITE In the summer of 1905 myselfand wife, accompanied by herbrother and my brother, spent aday investigating a pre-historicburial site some six miles south-west of Comanche, Texas, onWillow Branch, a tributary ofMercers Creek, The burial places cover quitean area of the hill-side, and a feware on the level ground acrossthe Branch to the west. Mr. Nabers, the owner of the 2 ipara^rapbe from a property, met us with pick andshovel prepared to excavate onethe graves. We opened one ofthe graves and found nothingbut rotten earth therein. A few years ago a son of opened one of the hill-siaegraves in which he found a part-ly decayed ijkeleton, which wasin a sitting posture with the chinbetween the knees. The skele-ton was only a few feet belowthe surface. The graves are C
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