• Take measures not to lose the provenience, seriation, or identification of the skeletal elements. Place the hands and feet into separate mesh bags or cheese cloth bundles. The digits also may be separated and bagged individually. This will aid identification following disarticulation. The same holds true for osseous fragments embedded in soft tissue in cases of peri- or postmortem trauma. Separate pots or layered metal sieves also may be used to maintain the provenience of these elements.
• Provide labels or markers to identify the contents of each of the pots or bags. Labels on plastic cards in permanent marker can be placed in the water with the remains.
• After a few hours the majority of the remains should be ready for manual tissue removal. It will likely take longer for the residual tissue to fully