Apparently no earth had been placed immediately over the body, only boards all around it laid lengthwise in a kind of box.

The bodies were bent up and laid on their sides.

Over the top boards was spread a layer of pine bark about an inch thick, which in turn was covered with earth and rubbish three inches deep, and this was overlaid with the coating of grass and mud so as to form a solid disk four or five inches, thick.

The edge of the basin was slightly raised, thus making the disk a little higher than the level of the floor.

I secured four skulls from here, besides a piece of excellently woven cloth of plant fibre, another piece interwoven with turkey feathers, and a fragment of a wooden needle.
Don Andres told me that he had observed similar modes of burial in the neighbourhood of Nararachic.