Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
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Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Depressions
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Shetrone and Greenman 1931: 367
Feature Description:
- Three depressions, 130 feet from west end of mound, 40 feet south of center
- Roughly circular, one yard in diameter and 6-10 inches deep
- Similar to area on floor adjacent to Burial 60
- Apparently part of single deposit as the contents seem to be the same
Contents:
1. Charcoal
2. Pottery fragments
- probably ritually killed and burned
3. Marine shells
- broken and burned
4. Mica
5. Flint-flake knives
- Flint Ridge material
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Crematory Basin 1
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:366
Feature Description:
- Very symmetrical and carefully made
- Floor covered with charcoal, clean, mostly of limbs and twigs burned in situ
Contents:
1. Shell beads (“numerous”)
- mixed with charcoal
2. Pearl beads (“numerous”)
- mixed with charcoal
3. Bear canines (30)
- black bear and grizzly
- mixed with charcoal
- most perforated and many set with pearls
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Ceremonial Cache
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:380
Feature Description:
- A typical looking burial platform 4 feet square, with a larger than average log
structure surrounding it (based upon the amount of cave-in)
- The corners were nearly “four-square” with the cardinal points
- A reed mat covered at least a portion of the platform
Contents:
1. Copper breastplates (12)
- piled in a “gable”, six on each side with their ends overlapping
- toward the platform’s west end
2. Copper celt (1)
- 20 inches long and 28 lbs.
- beneath the breastplates and cloth
3. Woven fabric (many layers)
- beneath and between breastplates
- in layers
4. Pearl beads (“several”)
- large
5. Pearl-set bear canines (3)
- with woven fabric
Site:
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Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burnt Offering
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:377-380
Figures 38, 39, 44, 45, 47
Feature Description:
- West end of mound
- Beneath the platforms of Burials 13, 14, 15
- Irregularly oval depression in the floor
- Filled with artifacts and obviously subjected to intense heat, such that the bottom
resembled a crematory basin
- The basin and its charred contents were covered over with clay.
Contents:
1. Owl effigy (1) (figure 44)
- hollow
- [boatstone]
2. Turkey vulture effigy (1) (figure 44)
- hollow
- [boatstone]
3. Insect puma effigy (1) (figure 47)
- shale
4. Incised steatite spheres (5) (figure 45)
5. Plummets (3) (figure 39)
- 1 of copper, one of chlorite, one of diorite
6. Chlorite beads (28) (figure 39)
- spherical
7. Obsidian blade (1)
- unnotched
8. Tubular copper beads
9. Pile of objects
- fused through heat
- five feet north of Burial 15
a. mostly plummet-shaped shell objects (22)
b. three pearl beads
c.
d.
e.
f.
one small copper disk
several flint-flake knives
raccoon canines - perforated
½ of a boat-shaped object of crystal quartz
10. Racoon os penis
- copper banded
- fragments
11. Bear claws
- fragments
12. Earspools (2) [per field notes]
- fragments
13. Mica designs (figure 38)
- fragments
14. Potsherds - utility and ceremonial
15. Uncounted canine teeth - perforated
- raccoon, opossum, fox, mountain lion, and other [per field notes]
16. Animal teeth
- alligator and shark
17. Spadefish bones
- incised
18. Flaked - flint knives (5)
19. Shell beads (“thousands”) [per field notes]
20. Notched obsidian scraper (1) [per field notes]
- bear claw shaped
Site:
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Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Pipe Cache
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:373-374
Feature Description:
- Located just above the multiple burial in the primary mound
Contents:
1. Copena pipes (5)
- micaceous steatite
- a squatting owl
- whooperwill-like bird with outstretched wings [eagle in field notes]
- dog eating a human head
- dog or wolf
- bear(?) head
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 1
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:380-382
Feature Description:
- A platform, 10 feet beyond the western border of the primary mound bark cover
Contents:
1. Partially cremated human remains (1)
- above seven copper objects laid out in a row parallel to the long axis of the platform
2. Copper celts (3)
- one in first position at the south end of the row of 2 objects
- two were in positions 3 and 4
- between legs and below back [field notes]
3. Copper breastplates (4)
- one was in second position in tow
- three breastplates were in positions 5, 6, and 7
- under hips, upper back, and head [per field notes]
4. Copper disks (2)
- [possibly earspools?]
- slightly cupped
- 2 ½ inch diameter
- on top of the upper end of the spinal column
5. Flint-flake knives (10)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- two to 2½ inches long
- four near southeast corner
- six near southwest corner [these are blades per field notes]
- and above burial 18” or so [field notes]
[Photo]
- Wall prep is logs on all four sides
- No body wrap visible
- Grave area is normal
Site:
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Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 2
Burial
Burials 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:374-376
Shetrone 1926:65
Figure 59
Feature Description:
- Multiple burial containing six skeletons
- Pipe cache found above these burials
- All heads to the east
- On platform four feet above floor
- Represents six of only 11 inhumations in mound
- Chamber size 12 feet east by 15 feet north
- Under primary mound with Burials 3-7, and 9-11.
- Under same fabric with Burials 3-7 and 9-11.
- Nostrils and hair ornaments resemble those found in a double burial in the large
central mound of Hopewell [Shetrone 1926:65]
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
2. Seed pearls and larger (100’s)
- outlining skeleton and beneath skeleton
3. Swan image - tortoise shell (figure 59, page 443)
- at the left foot
4. Bird engraving on tortoise shell
- with flowers and four directions (figure 59, page 445)
- at both hands and opposite right humerus
5. Tubular beads (3)
- meteoric iron
- between femurs
6. Stone button coverings (2)
- meteoric iron
- between femurs
7. Boat-shaped object (3)
- meteoric iron
- between femurs
8. Wolf jaws (1)
- animal bone
- opposite left hand
- possibly belongs to Burial 3
9. Copper rods
- from beneath skull on either side down to sternum
- hair braids were evidently secured to them
10. Copper imitation nostrils
- on skull
11. Breastplate with colored design on woven fabric
- copper
- beneath head of skeleton
12. Plummet
- under and surrounding body
Site:
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Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 3
Burial
Burials 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Hopewell and Greenman 1931:375-376
Feature Description:
- South and adjacent to burial two on same platform.
- Under primary mound with Burials 2, 4-7, and 9-11.
- Under same fabric with Burials 2, 4-7 and 9-11.
- Massive log enclosure with 3.5 foot high clay platform on which four of the bodies
were laid
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
2. Grizzly bear canines (4)
- drilled for suspension
- at neck; associated with 100s of pearls
3. Pearls (hundreds)
- encircling body and crossing neck
4. Buttons
- several
- at pelvis
- clay and stone
- copper covered
5. Arrow-point
- [other flint biface point]
- light-colored flint
- near heart
6. Wolf jaws (1)
- possibly present
- may be associated with left hand of Burial 2
- near right hand
Site:
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Burials in Same Grave:
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Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 4
Burial
Burials 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:376
Feature Description:
- Third position south of first skeleton and adjacent to Burials 2 and 4
- See Burials 2 and 3
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
2. Pearl beads (“numerous”)
- at neck and encircling skeleton
3. Copper plate (1)
- beneath head and neck
- fabric with colored design still attached
4. Button with silver foil (1)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 5
Burial
Burials 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:376
Feature Description:
- The fourth body south of Burial 2 and adjacent to Burial 4
- See Burials 2-3
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- unusually large
2. Copper plate (1)
- rectangular, large
- under skull
- fabric bearing colored designs attached
3. Pearl beads (“numerous”)
- at neck and in a thin line around skeleton
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 6
Burial
Burials 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:376-377
Feature Description:
- Southeast side of Burial
- Vault just east of the four adult skeletons.
- North of Burial 7.
- See Burials 2-3.
- In prepared depression seven inches deep, 17 inches diameter.
- On a small platform rising above the raised platform a few inches.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
2. Pearl and shell beads (1 quart)
- unknown position
3. Bear canines (4)
- all set with two pearls each
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 7
Burial
Burials 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:377
Feature Description:
- Southeast side of Burial. Vault just east of the four adult skeletons (Burials 2-5)
- South of Burial 6
- See Burials 2-3 for chamber description.
- Burial in prepared depression 7 inches deep, 17 inches in diameter within a small
platform raised a few inches above the main platform.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
2. Pearl beads (“several”)
- unusually large
- unknown position
3. Small mica designs (6)
- unknown position
4. Copper button (1)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 8
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman1931:476
Feature Description:
- Covered by two large slabs of shale
- 4 ½ inches x two feet five inches
- East-west
- Bark bed
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 9
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:460
Feature Description:
- Platform with bark covering the surface
- Log molds smaller than usual
- East-west trend [per field notes]
- Under primary mound with Burials 2-7, and 10-11
- Under same fabric with Burials 2-7 and 10-11
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper breastplate (1)
- woven fabric attached
- beside cremation pile
Site:
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Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 10
Burial
Burials 10A & 10B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:382-383
Figure 36
Feature Description:
- Burial platform surrounded by large slabs of sandstone and shale with a covering of
some kind [sandstone per field notes]
- Under primary mound with Burials 2-7, 9, and 11
- Under same fabric with Burials 2-7, 9, and 11
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
2. Diorite celt (1)
- finely polished
- unknown position
4. Copper earspools (2)
- on cremation [Photo]
5. Barrel-shaped shell beads (“a few”)
- unknown position
6. Tortoise shell fragments
- unknown position
7. Fragmentary copper headplate (1) (figure 36)
- unknown position
8. Copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
9. Wild cat lower jaws (2)
- cut and drilled for suspension
- decorated with black, white, and tan lines.
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Stone on all four sides
- No body wrap visible
- Water barrier of light stone
- Wild cat jaws (two halves or one jaw)
- Earspools on cremation
Site:
Provenience:
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Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 11
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:460
Figure 58
Feature Description:
- Stone slabs stood at either end of the platform
- Under primary mound with Burials 2-7, and 9-10
- Under same fabric with Burials 2-7 and 9-10
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Small copper breastplate (1)
3. Ocean shell container (1)
4. Tortoise shell combs (2) (figure 58)
- in log molds
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 12
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:460-462
Feature Description:
- Platform larger than usual; five feet three inches by about two feet, seven inches
- Log molds were also of unusual size
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- at platform’s center
2. Copper celts (2)
- fabric attached to one
- unknown position
3. Woven fabric imprint (1)
- one foot square
- northwest end of grave
[Photo]
- Logs on all four sides
- Stone on all four sides
- No body wrap visible
- Water barriers of light stone
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 13
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Platform is two feet 10 inches by six feet [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 14
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:462
Feature Description:
- Log molds two high on all sides
- Platform present [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Shell beads (“a few”)
- with charred remains
- unknown position
3. Copper plate fragments (1)
- with charred remains
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 15
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- North-south orientation
- Small log enclosure
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 16
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:478
Feature Description:
- Double set of log molds
- Platform two feet by three feet
- No artifacts [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 17
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:462
Feature Description:
- Medium-size platform
- Logs small [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- at platform center
2. Flint blade (1)
- [other flint odd biface]
- curved
- eastern end of platform
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 18
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Platform
- Log molds 2 high
- Bark below and above body [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 19
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:383-385
Feature Description:
- Usual size platform seven feet above the floor outside the primary portion of the
mound and above the gravel portion
- Log enclosure [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Partially cremated skeletal remains (1)
- unusually large
2. Copper breastplates (2)
- one was above the skull fragments with a copper crescent above it
- one was a regular rectangle and found over the pelvis
3. Copper crescent (1)
- on the breastplate above the skeleton’s skull fragments
[Photo]
- No body wrap
- Breastplates are over cremation
- Crescent is beside body
- Log wall prep on at least three sides
- Cover prep is an excavated cave
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 20
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Covered by a small mound of fine gravel
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 21
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 22
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:462
Feature Description:
- Normal platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Small copper celt (1)
- ceremonially killed
- covered with bark
- unknown position
3. Copper breastplate (2)
- fragmentary
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 23
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:462
Feature Description:
- Small, indifferently prepared platform
- Tier of logs, one log high [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Flint-flake knives (6)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- small
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 24
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:463
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Rectangular copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
3. Copper crescent (1)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 25
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Small burial
- Rectangular platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 26
Burial
Burials 26A, 26B, 26C
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:385-387
Feature Description:
- Three tiers of log molds surround burial chamber, unusually high in this mound
- chamber size is three feet three inches by four feet, eight inches
- Originally had a roof of seven split poles about four inches in diameter
- One of the supporting posts was 11 inches in diameter
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (3)
- skeleton A (west end)
- skeleton B (east end)
- skeleton C (east and center)
2. Copper celt
- with skeleton A
- 4 inches long
3. Sheet of mica
- with skeleton B
- 10 inches diameter
- under pile of cremated bone
4. Pearl beads (“a few”)
- on or among bones of skeleton B
5. Shell beads, barrel-shaped (24)
- on or among bones of skeleton B
6. Copper celt (1)
- on or among bones of skeleton B
7. Copper earspools (2)
- on or among bones of skeleton B
8. Imitation eagle claws (“several”)
- on or among bones of Skeleton B
- bone
9. Teaspoon-bowl like objects of copper (2)
- on or among bones of Skeleton B
- perforated at ends
10. Galena chunks (2)
- closest to skeleton B
- 3 pounds each
- at east end of platform on two corners
[Photo]
- No body wrap present
- Logs on all four sides
- Platform present
- Grave area is large
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 27
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:463
Feature Description:
- Small, unpretentious platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Ocean shell container (1)
- at southwest corner of platform
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 28
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:387
Figure 56
Feature Description:
- A platform five feet five inches by five feet seven inches
- Bordered by unusually large log molds
- Fabric cover [per field notes]
- Large platform for size of cremation
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- at center of large platform
2. Wooden disk (1)
- probably cremated with body
- unknown position
3. Wooden tube (1)
- probably cremated with body
- unknown position
4. Imitation copper alligator teeth (8)
- unknown position
5. Imitation bear claws of bone
- unknown position
6. Copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
7. Wildcat jaws (2 pieces) (figure 56)
- finely curved in a geometric pattern
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 29
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Large platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- few bones remain
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 30
Burial
Burials 30A & 30B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:475
Feature Description:
- Platform
- Double burial
- Log enclosure (one high) [per field notes]
- Immediately above primary mound
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- mixed together
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 31
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Log enclosure [per field notes]
- No information
- Platform 2 ½ feet above mound floor
- Under an addition to primary mound
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partial cremation
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 32
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:387-388
Feature Description:
- Fairly large platform three feet by five feet
- Surrounded by three tiers of logs molds
- Probably had a bark strip cover over the log enclosed chamber
- Primary mound [per field notes]
- Charcoal incorporated in platform [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Flaked knives (6)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- southwest side of the platform
3. Bear canines (3)
- drilled
- mixed with ashes of body
4. Barrel-shaped shell beads (“a few”)
- mixed with ashes of body
5. Copper breastplates (2)
- small and overlapping
- under the cremated bones
6. Preserved fabric and leather (“some”)
- under breastplates
7. Copper earspools (2)
- on platform beneath fabric and plates
8. Plain pottery vessel (1)
- large
- northeast corner of platform
9. Small arrowhead (1)
- [other flint biface]
- beneath cremation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 33
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:463
Feature Description:
- No information
- Small logs [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
3. Copper earspools (4)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 34
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:388-389
Feature Description:
- Burial platform
- No other information given
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- at platform’s center
2. Pearl beads (4)
- on cremation pile
3. Diminutive copper crescent (1)
- on cremation pile
4. Small copper hemisphere (1)
- hollow
- on cremation
5. Copper praying mantis (?) effigies (2)
- [coded as wand of horned mammal]
- on cremation
[Photo]
- Two logs high on all four sides
- Cover prep is excavated cave
- No body wrap visible
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 35
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:463
Feature Description:
- Typical cremated burial
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper celt (1)
- seven inches long
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 36
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:463-464
Feature Description:
- A platform four feet long and two feet five inches wide, composed mostly of
charcoal and other burnt organic matter.
- A small mound covered both this and Burial 39
- Each burial was covered by gravel rather than earth
- Bark covered platform and remains
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Human head effigy (1)
- fist size
- above bark covering
- made of shale
3. Small copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
4. Copper earspools (2)
- small
- unknown position
5. Copper covered stone buttons (4)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 37
Burial
Burial 37A & 37B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:464
Feature Description:
- Burial platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- one at northwest end of platform, 37A
- one at opposite end of platform, 37B
2. Copper breastplate (1)
- adjacent to cremated remains of 37A toward center of platform
3. Breastplate (1)
- with 37B
- small
4. Pearl bead strand (1)
- with 37A
- small
- beneath breastplate
5. Cloth and leather
- with 37A
- beneath breastplate
6. Small copper celt (1)
- with 37A
- beneath breastplate
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 38
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:464
Feature Description:
- Small platform
- Log structure [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper breastplate (1)
- attached to flat woven fabric
- unknown position
3. Bone needle (1)
- six inches long
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 39
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:464-465
Feature Description:
- Platform 3 ½ feet by 3 ½ feet
- 4 ½ feet above mound floor
- Log molds three high
- Large slabs of shale were set up around the platform inside the log molds
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper celts (5)
- toward west end of platform
3. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
4. Copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Log molds on four sides
- Cover prep is excavated cave
- No body wrap visible
- Water barrier of light stone
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 40
Burial
Burials 40A, 40B, 40C
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:465-466
Feature Description:
- Primary mound [per field notes]
- Large platform 4 ½ feet by seven feet
- Platform mostly of charcoal and sand
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (3)
- Cremation A: near northwest corner
- Cremation B: middle of the north side
- Cremation C: from middle of platform to south edge
2. Copper celts (2)
- with Cremation A
- finely made
3. Thin copper celt
- 8 inches long
- with Cremation C
5. Galena lump (1)
- 20 pounds
- with Cremation C
6. Pulley-type stone earspool (1)
- with cremation C
7. Pearl beads (several)
- with cremation C
[Photo]
- Wall prep is logs on all four sides
- Cover prep is excavated cave
- No body wrap visible
- Grave area is normal
No Artifacts (Cremation B)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 41
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:466
Feature Description:
- Platform without special features
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Pendant from beaver’s upper jaw (1)
- unknown position
3. Large pearl bead (1)
- unknown position
4. Globular shell beads
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 42
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:390
Feature Description:
- Burial platform six feet by three feet and three feet above the mound floor
- At edge of mound proper
- Logs [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
2. Bear canines (“several”)
- each set with a pearl
- at neck
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 43
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:466-467
Feature Description:
- Platform bordered by three tiers of logs
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- near platforms center
2. Copper breastplate (1)
- beneath which was preserved some woven fabric and leather
- unknown position
3. Copper beads (several)
- unknown position
4. Effigy tooth of copper (1)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 44
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- One log high platform
- Large, flat stone in each posthole
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 45
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:467
Feature Description:
- Platform 3 ½ feet by 4 feet
- Log molds three high
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Ocean shell container (1)
- small
- unknown position
3. Copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
4. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
5. Pearl beads (50)
- unknown position
6. Hollow copper hemispheres (3)
- one inch diameter
- in charcoal beneath the platform
[Photo]
- Logs on all four sides
- No body wrap is visible
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 46
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:467
Feature Description:
- Platform four feet five inches by 19 inches
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (1)
- unknown position
3. Bone needles (1)
- double pointed? [per field notes]
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 47
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Platform surrounded by stone slabs
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 48
Burial
Burials 48A, 48B, 48C
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:390-392
Feature Description:
- Platform elevated four feet off the ground
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (3)
- skeleton A, east side of platform and extended
- skeleton B, skull only, located on cremated remains probably the same person [at
platform edge per field notes]
- skeleton C, cremated human bone, beneath skeleton A and partial cremation B
2. Copper celt
- beneath shoulders of skeleton A
3. Spherical beads (“several”) [per field notes]
- fine large
- beside wrist of skeleton A
4. Copper earspools (2)
- at ears of skull, skeleton B
5. Red paint/ silver white substance
- on skull of skeleton B (around teeth and jaws)
- no holes so probably not trophy
- silver/ white substance may be powdered galena
6. Copper breastplate (1)
- under cremation skeleton C
[Photo]
- Logs at least one high on four sides
- No body wrap visible
- Grave area is normal
- Five plus shell beads by right wrist of skeleton A
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 49A
Burial
Burials 49A & 49B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:392-393
Figure 34
Feature Description:
- Square platform four feet five inches by four feet five inches
- Log molds 3 in height exist on the sides of the chamber
- Granulated charcoal floor [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- Burial 49A, across one side of the platform
- Burial 49B, from middle of platform to side opposite pile A
2. Flint-flake knives (12)
- several broken by heat
- with Burial 49A
2. Copper earspools (2)
- with Burial 49B
3. Copper rod (resembling butcher’s steel) (1) (figure 34)
- 12 inches long and tapering to a point
- stone or antler handle [per field notes]
- with Burial 49B
4. Burnt leather and fabric (“a mass of”)
- between piles A and B
5. Mountain lion jaws ornament (1)
- striped with black and white pigment
- embedded in the leather and fabric mass
- between piles A and B
6. Breastplate (1)
- with Burial 49B
7. Copper breastplate (1)
- beneath leather and fabric
- between piles A and B
8. Copper celt (1)
- beneath leather and fabric
- between piles A and B
9. Copper earspools (2)
- near leather and fabric
- between piles A and B
[Photo]
- Logs on all four sides
- Cover prep is excavated cave
- No body wrap visible
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 50
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Typical
- Long, narrow platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 51
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Typical
- Very small platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 52
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:393-394
Feature Description:
- Platform 5 feet two inches by 33 inches
- Slightly too short for the body
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- placed diagonally on the platform
2. Large pearl bead bracelets(?) (2)
- at wrists
3. Seed pearl beads
- several hundred
- at right side of head
[Photo]
- Logs on all four sides
- No body wrap visible
- Cover prep is excavated cave
- Grave area is normal but small inhumation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 53
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:467
Feature Description:
- Platform of usual size
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Bone needles (2)
3. Mussell-shell paint cup (1)
4. Mica links (3)
- formed in the shape of a letter “U” to the south of the cremated bones
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 54
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Platform surrounded by large stone slabs
- Logs [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 55
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Platform
- Logs [per field notes]
- Surrounded by large stone slabs
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 56
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- On top of outer slope of primary mound
- Three feet above baseline
- Platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 57
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- Well out toward the southern margin of the mound on top of the outer slope of the
primary mound
- Three feet above the floor
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper celt (1)
- small
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 58
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:394
Figure 49c
Feature Description:
- Well prepared platform 40 inches by 25 inches
- Three log molds in height
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Ceremonial knives (3)
- obsidian
- two (2) highly curved in two planes and notched
- unknown position
3. Butterfly-shaped chipped obsidian item (1)
- 3 ¾ inches long (figure 49c)
- unknown position
4. Drill punch (1)
- meteoric iron
- size and shape of a lead pencil
- unknown position
5. Bear claws (18)
- several have proximal perforations
- unknown position
6. Flaked knives (10)
- flint ridge material
- unknown position
7. Bone needle fragments
- unknown position
8. Pearl beads (4)
- unknown position
9. Button-shaped object
- copper [per field notes]
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 59
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- Medium-size platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper breastplate (1)
- unknown position
3. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
4. Flaked knives (4)
- unknown position
5. Drab flint arrow point (1)
- three inches long
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 60
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:394-395
Figure 39, 44
Feature Description:
- Nearly square platform measuring four feet in each direction
- Platform surface covered in a layer of charcoal two inches thick
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- in a slight depression at the center of the platform
2. Chlorite bar-shaped gorget (1) (figure 39)
- unknown position
3. Steatite boat-shaped ceremonial (1)
- represents a duck with a head and bill reposing backward over shoulders and back –
(figure 44)
- unknown position
4. Copper crescent (1)
- corroded
- 7 inches end to end
- toward northeast corner of platform
5. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 61
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- Small platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Small flint blanks (3)
- unknown position
3. Nodular flint (1)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 62
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Small platform, rectangular
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 63
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- Small, carefully made platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 64A
Burial
Burials 64A & 64B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- 3 ½ feet by four feet four inch platform
- Primary mound [per field notes]
- Double burial
- Log molds [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 64B
Burial
Burials 64A & 64B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- 3 ½ feet by four feet four inch platform
- Primary mound [per field notes]
- Double burial
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 65
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- Platform four feet long by two feet wide
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Charred fabric
- covering cremated remains
3. Land turtle carapace (parts of 1)
- unknown position
4. Deer humeral head (1)
- unknown position
5. Plate like object
- animal skin? [per field notes]
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 66
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:395
Feature Description:
- Platform of earth measuring seven feet by 32 inches
- Very wide log molds indicate massive logs used in the walls
- The edge of Crematory Basin 3 was found at the north end of this Burial
- Primary mound cover of heavy gravel [per field notes]
- Body covered by woven shroud [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
2. Bear canines (4)
- small
- pearl set
- at neck
3. Copper breastplate (1)
- medium size
- set with pearls at perforations
- right side of head [per field notes]
4. Bone awls (4)
- one at each corner
[Photo]
- No body wrap visible
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 67
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:469
Feature Description:
- Three feet by three feet six inch platform
- Log molds surrounded by a dozen angular blocks
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 69
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Platform surrounded by large stone slabs
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 70
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Rectangular platform two feet by one foot
- Surrounded by a layer of burnt red shale
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 71
Burial
Burials 71A & 71B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:470
Feature Description:
- Platform of clay and gravel with log molds two in height
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- at platform’s center
2. Large and small copper earspools (4)
- at edge of pile of charred bones
3. Ocean shell containers (2)
- one at each corner at the southwest end
[Photo]
- No body wrap visible
- Water barrier of shell
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 72
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:478
Feature Description:
- Earth platform
- Under “one arch” with Burial 73 (separate platforms)
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 73
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:396
Figure 50
Feature Description:
- Clay platform covered with charcoal
- Log molds three tiers high
- Large granite boulders lay on the floor at each end of the grave
- Cover prep is bark [per field notes]
- Under “one arch” with Burial 72 (separate platforms)
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- at platforms center
2. Bear teeth (12)
- not drilled
- unknown position
3. Mountain lion jaw (1)
- unknown position
4. Shell gorgets (4)
- one circular
- three rectangular
- unknown position
5. Flint-flake knives (9)
- unknown position
6. Ocean shell container (1)
- unknown position
7. Platform pipe in bird effigy (1) (figure 50)
- unknown position
8. Bone awls in sandstone “box” (17)
- the “box” appears to be two sandstone tablets with awls sandwiched between
- unknown position
9. Pearl beads (200)
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Logs on at least three sides
- Cover prep is excavated cave
- No body wrap visible
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 74
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:470
Feature Description:
- Three feet 10 inch by two feet three inch platform
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Steatite cup (1)
- very small
- two inches deep, two inches diameter
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 75
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:478
Feature Description:
- Platform, log molds three high
- Cover prep is bark [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 76
Burial
Burials 76A & 76B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:475
Feature Description:
- Poorly constructed
- Outside the margin of the primary mound
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- one pile at each end
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 77
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:475
Feature Description:
- 14 inches beneath mound floor
- On circular clay post; one foot diameter
- this post was within a pit two feet four inches deep and four feet seven inches
diameter
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Deer bones (“a large number”)
- in pit
3. Fancy and utilitarian pottery (12 sherds)
- in pit
4. Uncut mica sheet (1)
- in pit
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 78A
Burial
Burials 78A & 78B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:475
Feature Description:
- Platform
- Log molds [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 79
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:396-398
Feature Description:
- Stone vault burial which had not caved in
- Log molds existed, two sides and south end
- A small primary mound was built over the chamber
- Platform 3 ½ feet by two feet five inches
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- at center of platform
2. Copper disks (2)
- [copper cut out]
- with cremated remains
3. Bone beads (2)
- with cremated remains
[Photo]
- Wall prep is stone on all four sides, with logs
- Cover prep is stone/ primary mound
- No body wrap is visible
- Water barrier of light stone
- Grave area is small
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 80
Burial
Burials 80A & 80B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Small platform
- Logs
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (2)
- one cremation: Burial 80A
- one inhumation: Burial 80B
2. Ocean shell container (1)
- above head of inhumation
No Artifacts (Burial 80A)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 81
Burial
Burials 81A & 81B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:470
Feature Description:
- No information
- Platform [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (2)
- one cremation: Burial 81A
- one inhumation: Burial 81B
- extended on back facing east
2. Ocean shell container (1)
- at head of Burial 81B
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 82
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Platform 44 inches by 24 inches
- Log molds
- Stone floor
- Encircled by a ring of vertical stone slabs
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 83
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Platform surrounded by stone slabs
- Log molds [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 84
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- No information
- Platform [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 85
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:470-471
Feature Description:
- Platform surface was three inches below the floor surface
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Raccoon canines (2)
- on or among bones of cremation
3. Small flint flake (1) [per field notes]
- at northwest corner of platform
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 86
Burial
Burials 86A, 86B, 86C
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:398-400
Feature Description:
- Platform [per field notes]
- Chamber approximately 70 inches long and 34 inches wide
- Log molds were unusual:
- East: three log mold lying horizontally side by side
- West: two log molds side by side
- North: one log mold side by side
- South: two log molds side by side
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (3)
- in three piles one at center and two toward either end of the platform
- Cremation A: center cremation
- Cremation B: north end
- Cremation C: south end
2. Copper celt (1)
- with cremation A
3. Sea shell container (1)
- with cremation B
4. Copper earspools (2)
- either side of shell container
- with cremation B
5. Pearl beads (2 dozen)
- beneath shell container
- with cremation B
6. Potsherds (4)
- beneath human remains
- with cremation B
7. Pieces of cane (panpipe?) [per field notes]
- with cremation B
8. Copper breastplate (1)
- attached to woven fabric with a yellow and red pattern
- two inches from cremation pile
- with cremation C
9. Copper earspools (2)
- between breastplate and cremation
- with cremation C
[Photo]
- Cover prep is excavated cave
- No body wrap visible
- Grave area is normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 87
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:477
Feature Description:
- Above the floor
- Platform [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 88
Burial
Burials 88A & 88B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:471
Feature Description:
- On gravel three feet above the mound floor
- Measured six feet three inches by two feet eight inches
- Platform [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- Cremation A, partially cremated, near platform center
- Cremation B, fully cremated,
2. Bone pendants (2)
- near the abdominal position
- with cremation A
3. Copper earspools (2)
- side by side
- with cremation A
5. Copper earspools (2)
- with cremation B
6. Pearl beads (3)
- with cremation B
7. Claw-shaped pendant of bone (1)
- with cremation B
[Photo]
- No body wrap visible
- Earspools on top of cremation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 89
Burial
Burials 89A & 89B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:471-472
Feature Description:
- Platform 50 inches by 28 inches
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- scattered from one end of the platform to the other
2. Plain platform pipes (2)
- one at each end of the pile of cremated bones
3. Perforated bone awl (1)
- at platform’s center
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 90
Burial
Burials 90A & 90B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:472
Feature Description:
- Platform six feet by three feet
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- one at each end of the platform
- cremation B, west end
- cremation A, east end
2. Copper breastplate (1)
- on a rush mat [per field notes]
- with cremation B
3. Pearl beads (2)
- on breastplate
- with cremation 2
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 91
Burial
Burials 91A & 91B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Small triangular platform, 26 inch base, 47 inch hypotenuse
- Near Burial 90
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- single pile at center
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 92
Burial
Burials 92A & 92B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- Square platform three feet four inches by three feet
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- lay in two long piles on platform
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 93
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:477
Feature Description:
- Above the floor; platform [per field notes]
- No artifacts [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 94
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:476
Feature Description:
- No information
- On mound floor; charcoal floor prep [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partial cremation
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 95
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:478
Feature Description:
- Surrounded by a wall of firmly packed yellow clay 8-12 inches high, seven inches
wide
- Outside log molds
- Platform [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- platform center
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 96
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:474
Feature Description:
- Small, box-like cist of shale slabs
- three feet by 14 inches, one foot deep
- Shale floor and roof as well
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 97
Burial
Burials 97A & 97B
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:472-473
Feature Description:
- Platform surrounded by vertically placed stone slabs at the inner edges of the log
molds
- There appears also to have been at least a partial roof of stone
- Two logs high [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- in two piles to the east and west of center
- Cremation A, west side
- Cremation B, east side
2. Small copper celt (1)
- with Cremation A
3. Pearl beads (half a dozen)
- with Cremation A
4. Flake knives (2)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- flint ridge
- with Cremation B
5. Shark tooth (1)
- embedded in platform between cremation piles
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 98
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:473
Feature Description:
- Platform 26 inches by 15 inches
- Logs [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- near center
2. Copper earspool (2)
- on skull frags [per field notes]
- unknown position
3. Cut panther or mountain lion jaw (1)
- unknown position
4. Pearls (9) [per field notes]
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 99
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:475
Feature Description:
- No preparation
- Laid out on a skin mat
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Pricer Mound, Burial 100
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:475
Feature Description:
- No preparation
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Mound 3, Burial 1
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:479
Feature Description:
- Charcoal platform outlined by log molds
- Two to three logs high [per field notes]
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper bead (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Seip Earthwork
Mound 4, Burial 1
Burial
None
Shetrone and Greenman 1931:480
Feature Description:
- Unprepared grave
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (2)