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<strong>Burial</strong> hro, 16 consisted of skull fragments; bone<br />

trails of long bones not identifiable. A half dozen badly<br />

decayed shell beads were noted. The burial is suggestive of<br />

a young fenale, with light bones and recently erupted third<br />

rolar.<br />

<strong>Burial</strong> 917 contained barely enough decayed bone to<br />

be catalogable as a burial -- two niblets of skull bone and<br />

two fragments of long bone.<br />

b o n e s .<br />

<strong>Burial</strong> Ko. 18 consisted of pieces .of skull and long<br />

<strong>Burial</strong>s Nos. 19, 20, 21, and 22: These burials were brought out<br />

in the west central portion of<br />

the round and contained extremely fragmentary remains--just<br />

enough to indicate burials.<br />

<strong>Burial</strong> hb. 19 consisted of shull fragments, part of a<br />

lower jaw, middle parts of two feuora, one tibia, and one<br />

humerus whioh were identifiable, in a small bone heap. Bundle<br />

r eburial?<br />

<strong>Burial</strong> Xo. 20 exhibited parts of two femurs, part of<br />

a lower jaw, and bone trail.<br />

<strong>Burial</strong> No. 21 was a handful of skull and long bone<br />

fragments; vastoid and petrous process, niblets of parietal, and<br />

portions of feuur and tibia wepe recognizable.<br />

<strong>Burial</strong> No. 22 showed mastoid, parietal,and parts of long<br />

bones <strong>which</strong> appeared almost oaloined but without local evidences<br />

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