This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...other siabs were placed over the body. Removal of all loose rocks and earth showed that this grave did not rest directly against the inner wall, as first supposed, but against another grave similar in construction though much smaller, being only 10 by 29 inches on the bottom. This contained the bones of a child of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...other siabs were placed over the body. Removal of all loose rocks and earth showed that this grave did not rest directly against the inner wall, as first supposed, but against another grave similar in construction though much smaller, being only 10 by 29 inches on the bottom. This contained the bones of a child of seven or eight years. The two graves and a part of the wall, - looking southwest, are shown in plate 8, c. Continued excavation revealed a burial vault filled with earth and constructed in the manner described below. One skeleton, a foot under the surface, with the head toward the west, was probably intrusive. The inclosing wall measured outside 14 feet east and west, and 10 feet north and south. The north side was indented, the effect being to give the structure a somewhat reniform outline; the 10-foot measurement was made to the actual limit, not to the point where a continuous line would bring it. Had the curve been uniform, the boundary would have formed a regular ellipse with a breadth of 12 feet, extending to the middle of the child's grave. The average height of the wall inside was 2 feet 2 inches, except at this indented portion, where it was not more than a foot; but the stones were so well laid, and so continuous at the bottom with those on each side as to show that there had not been a doorway or entrance here, but that the wall was built as a whole in its entire circuit. Afterward, the single row of stones was run to include both graves within the general system of burials of which the vault was the principal feature. Under the main wall, where the incurve began, on the north side, was the skeleton of a young child, lying on the natural surface, with the head toward the east. Beneath the smaller grave, outside, was another dug a f...
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Tight binding, cover wear and discoloration, chipped, Good- 116pp, b/w illustrations, map. Bureau American Ethnology Bulletin #37 cover wrapper is the Archaeological Institute of America publication paper #16.
