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Identifier: explorationofmun21heye (find matches)
Title: Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924, joint author
Subjects: Munsee Indians
Publisher: New York, The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Skeleton 27, a, child, 14 in. below the surface. It was lying
N and S, with the skull toward the S. The skull was badly crushed
and the bones of the body were much decayed. Nothing was
found with it.

Skeleton 28, an adolescent, lying on its back, with legs extended
and with arms at the sides. It was 7 in. below the surface; the head
was toward the SW. The skull was crushed, but the other bones
were in their normal positions. Six inches beneath the skeleton
and a little to the west of it was a layer of clam-shells under which
was a hammerstone and several deer-bones.

Skeleton 2Q, 9 in. below the surface, was that of a child which
was lying on its back. The arms rested at the sides, the legs were
extended, and the left foot was crossed over the right. The body
was lying with the head toward the SW. When the first indication
of this skeleton was encountered, careful search was made in the
earth that had been thrown out with a few finger-bones. In this

CONTR. MUS. AMER. INDIAN VOL. II, NO. 1 , PL. VI
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a. SKELETON 31 WITH DEPOSIT OF BONE TUBES AND PIPES

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