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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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FRAGMENTARY ALGONQUIAN JARS M H EYE-PEP PER—EXPLORATION OF A MUNSEE CEMETERY 49 pieces of red ochre were mixed with the sand that surrounded theskull, the upper part of which was discolored by it. The craniaof Skeletons 30 and 33 were each resting in a mass of red ochre,and small pieces of this material were mingled with the beads thatencircled the neck of Skeleton 30. Some of the crania and other bones were discolored by coppersalts, but there was no indication of the use of paint as a meansof decoration. Objects of European Origin Although the first settlement of the Minisink region by whitepeople was made during the last decade of the seventeenth century,the Munsee, living so near the coast, had been in touch with civiliza-tion from the earliest colonial times, hence it was not surprising tofind various articles of foreign manufacture in the graves. Glassbeads were among the first trinkets to be traded with the Indians,and many of these found their way to Minisink. In addition,th

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