1843

1853

Fit

initial discovery

"whilst some workmen were engaged in digging sand from a pit"

"whilst workmen were engaged in digging sand for the mortar used in the construction of the piers of the ire suspension bridge at Bytown"

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location

"immediately in the rear of Bedard's Hotel, at Hull"

"on a projecting point of land directly in rear of their encampment, at a carrying place, and about half a mile below the mighty cataract of the Chaudière…the sand, forming a superstratum of many feet thickness at its upper part, and gradually ending in a feathery edge over the fossiliferous limestone which constitutes the bed of the river."

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number of individuals

"amounting in all to about twenty, of both Sexes, and some few Children"

"about twenty bodies, of various ages, a goodly share of them being children"

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use of red ochre

no mention

"In every instance the bones were deeply coloured from the Red Hematite which the aborigines used in painting, or rather bedaubing their bodies"

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condition of skulls

"One skull alone bears any marks of apparent violence, having a distinct fracture and depression on one side, and a fissure on the other."

"nothing, however, could be detected on the skulls, to indicate that they fell by the tomahawk…six perfect skulls"

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condition of other bones

no mention

"the remainder crumbled into dust on exposure to the air"

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dentition

"teeth in all of them are perfect and entire"

"the teeth were perfect, and not one unsound one was to be detected, at the same time they were all well worn down by trituration"

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associated artifacts

"a War Club, now perfectly petrified; a small stone instrument, resembling a gouge, and a stone chisel…now in the possession of Dr. V. Cortlandt, Bytown"

"1st, a piece of Gneiss about two feet long, tapering and evidently intended as a sort of war club…2nd, a stone gouge…3rd, a stone hatchet…4th, a sandstone boulder weighing about four pounds"

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presence of dog remains

"Together with a few dog heads"

"portions of the remains of two dogs heads"

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separate burials

no mention

"a sandstone boulder…found lying on the sternum of a Chief of gigantic stature, who was buried apart from the others, and who had been walled round with great care"

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features of location

"in a small barrow of the rudest description"

no mention

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proposed causes of deaths

"victims to some pestilence, not improbably small Pox"

"having fallen victims to some epidemic, or beneath the hands of some other hostile tribe"

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manner of burial

no mention

"the confused state in which the bones were found, shewed that no care whatever had been taken in burying the original owners"

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