Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey (1915) (14754466586)

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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ents. Of the sixty-eight skeletons exhumed, only one had pottery in association, andthis was merely a fragment. The exception noted was Skeleton 60,which had on the cranium a portion of a bowl with a boat-shapedend. The exterior is paddle-marked, but there is no other evidenceof decoration. Though but a fragment, it is the only evidence of abowl-shaped vessel found in the mound. With Skeleton 11 two large fragments of a jar were found,but as this skeleton had been disturbed it is probable that thesesherds, like a large rim fragment found with Skeleton 8, had formedpart of the refuse from a feast that had been cast into the grave. A description of the technique of the earthenware of the Mini-sink site is given on pages 60-67, m connection with the discussionof the objects not associated with burials. Pigments The only evidence of pigments found with burials was in associ-ation with Skeletons 8, 30, and 33. With the first of these, small CONTR. MUS. AMER. INDIAN VOL. II, NO. 1, PL. XVII
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