Grave inclusions from burials in Shackleford County cemetery. Left, a-b, Engraved bone tubes. Right, a-c, shell pendants (a and b show different sides of same pendant). Investigator Robert Forrester speculated that the engraved bones might have been handles for a basket or container holding human remains, in this case, an infant. They Drawing from Forrester 1951 (detail from Fig. 5).
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