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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side. Skeleton 60 was lying in the same position as the one justdescribed, and on its head rested a fragment of an earthenwarebowl, 3 in. in depth. Strange to say, this was the only sherd of abowl found with a burial. In connection with the subject of urn-burials the reader isreferred to the section treating of Pits Containing Jars (pages 67-70). Feast-pits In the descriptions of the burials mention is made of feast-pitsand the remains of feasts as represented by animal bones (many ofwhich had been broken, evidently for the purpose of extracting themarrow), bird bones, shells, etc. In many instances the disturbedarea was merely an extension of the grave itself, showing that therefuse from the feast had been either deposited near the body ormingled with the earth with which the remains were covered. In some instances were found so-called pits a short distancefrom the burial. In one case, for example, the edge of such a pitwas three feet from the nearest edge of the grave of Skeleton 6.
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