Field notes, v1725
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A.C. Ziegler 1958 Journal Feb. 9 (cont.) Brooks Island, D to 10 ft, Contra Costa Co. (unit Anderson apparently had been exposed by waves washing away collapsing the mound. He found no skull and after I dug thru all the loose dirt below the cavern I only found one loose tooth and post of the lower jaw (to which the tooth belonged) but no cranium. It might have been washed away by waves or it might still be buried in some spot in which we had not dug. Picked up many other bird & mammal bones from mound -- gave bird bones to Dick Banks at MVR. Paul had found 2 pieces of (unworked?) quartz x'm, a plumb-bag-like hollow ornament?; a faint scraper or blade knapped?; and a couple of long (8-10cm?) crow bone needles on ribs in pelvic region of skeleton. One of needles had "eye" in it. He also noticed some redish pigment which might have been a box of paint ultimately buried with [illegible] scraps some off one spat on a rib bone where I noticed it. In digging out a remaining foot of same skeleton I found parts of another needle or two with the foot bones. Also picked up a woodshovel