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Show ground, the ribs in some instances being placed together & the form of arches. Selecting what appeared to be a the edge of the cliff, fronting the ntero shown in the o running due north and south. Two feet below the so burials were reached, quantities of broken bones being m spade, interspersed with pieces of whales' bones and deoa 5 feet the first entire skeleton was found in position, an subsequently uncovered; in all of them the head fronted n ward, and the lower limbs were extended. Over the femi a flat plate of steatite, a sort of soapatone, 12 or 14 inches s whioh we called a " tortilla- stone," its probable use having or tortillas, the hole in the end serving to withdraw it it heated. In rear of the skeleton, and to one side of the pla tite, broken, but containing some fine glass beads and nu stone pestle of symmetricafshape, about 3 feet in length, o and another plate of steatite, and two large ollas of ove: mouths or apertures fronting north, and just above was cliff, face downward, and on top of it a single femur. Coi ward the cliff, a small sandstone mortar was exhumed cot and in its immediate vicinity a large number of beadB of gl made from the lamina of the abalone shell, which is conim in great abundance on the islands some 20 miles distant, skeletons were found in similar positions, but in many in* flexed upon the body, while in a few cases the fingers of month. One skeleton was that of a child, near which w tortilla- stones, and two more ollas, one of which con tain e a child. This skeleton had apparently been wrapped in small portions were found attached to the bones and set containing the head- bones of the child were a great nu smaller than mustard- seed, which were recognized ny one c by the present California Indians and natives in making washes, the Spanish name being chiya. A second trench, opened 40 feet from the first, yielded c crania and other specimens, among which were fish- boi shark possibly,) and a very large olla containing bones s epiphysis of a whale's vertebra. The following are the no man in charge of the excavations at this point: First north and south, trending to the westward. Indications o rocks set up vertically. Two and one- half feet below the face downward, head to the north. Three feet below surfac which being removed was found to cover ribs and shouldei pointing north, body resting on left side. A small mortar sandstone mortar and pestle of fine workmanship near top * ing rather unprolific, a second trench was commenced 40 feel about of same size. Two feet below the surface to our gre olla was discovered, which proved to contain the skelefc matting. Unfortunately, upon exposure to the air, the bon< the olla was a cranium, apex west, face north. Three feet skeletons in fair condition, with crania to the north. Our < veloped so much of interest that it was not until darkness discontinued our work. In order to give some idea of the amount of material ret tions, a record of each day's work follows: June 10.- This morning began work shortly after sunrii the day before, digging in a westerly direction in the first, and bones were fonnd in similar positions to the first met ollas, tortilla- stones, mortars, and pestles. All these uteni immediate vicinity of the headB of the skeletons; in fact, ii were covered by large mortars placed orifice down. In the was in an easterly direction, and the first discovery that oj of iron near the right hand, probably a knife or Bpear- h speaking, was a source of great grief to us, our hope being iah civilization would be found in these graves. It could though a great deal of pre- historic romance was at once do was another, and by its side the first pipe met with, whicl to a plain modern cigar- holder, and consisted of a tube of 6 inches long, the diameter of the wider orifice being a 1 smaller end was a mouth- piece formed from a piece of a bo: and cemented in place by asphaltnm. How these pipes w< comfort is impossible to surmise. |