828 PAPERS EELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



on tlie south boundary of Namioka township, 6 miles east of East Saint 

 Louis, on the road leading to Collinsville." 



Moore, J. H. — Reports that there are many mounds in the vicinity of 

 Oakley, Arkansas County, Arkansas. 



Parish, Sidney. — Writes that near his house, 18 miles above Memphis, 

 Teun., is a large mound, upon which relics have been found. 



Poynter, Eobert H. — Writing from Desha County, Arkansas, speaks 

 of Wal-ka-ma-tu-ba, an old Indian, who was buried in 1834, in the fol- 

 lowing manner : The house in which the family lived was built of round 

 logs, covered with bark and daubed with mud. In the middle of the 

 house a board was driven about 3 feet into the ground, and the old man 

 was lashed to this with thongs, in a sitting posture, with his knees drawn 

 up in front of his chin and his hands crossed and fastened under his 

 knees. The body was then entirely encased in mud, built up like a round 

 mound and smoothed over. A fire was kindled over the pile and the 

 clay burnt to a crisp. Six months afterward the family were moved 

 away and the mound opened. The body was well preserved. Another 

 body had been wrapped in bark of the birch and deposited in the cavity 

 of a dry spring. 



Reed, J. W. K., makes the following remarks about Cross Creek, Pa. : 



" In this vicinity are to be found many small mounds. On the top of 

 a high ridge, partly on my farm, and partly on my neighbor's, are many 

 traces of prehistoric races. At one point on the level, on top of the ridge, 

 is a mound which was about 5^ feet high and from 2 to 3 rods in diameter, 

 in which an excavation was made a few years ago, and a stone wall was 

 uncovered. The wall was built alongside of a crack in a large rock ; 

 the crack is V shaped, which shows that one side has settled down j the 

 mound is principally formed of stones, intermixed with some earth, and 

 on it was growing large trees. There was nothing found in it except 

 the stone- wall. It was only partially excavated. In the immediate vi- 

 cinity are to be found other mounds, and several large rocks with a pe- 

 culiar kind of carving on them. The carving is rather indistinct, but it 

 is the "work of human hands. Partly surrounding these carved rocks 

 and mounds can be traced a circle formed by flat stones set in on edge. 

 From a point in this circle starts a straight line of these stones that are 

 set in on edge which runs near the center of the circle ; this line can 

 be traced 30 or 40 rods. In other places in this region, where there are 

 large rocks, we find these carvings. The circular row of stones set on 

 edge appear to follow around the top of the point of the hill. If the 

 timber was cleared off this hiU there would be a great view from it. At 

 one point objects can be seen beyond the Ohio Eiver (about 10 miles). 

 Many stones about the mounds show marksofhavingbeenrudely dressed. 

 We find many arrowheads, stone axes, stone hammers, &c., in this vi- 

 cinity." 



Eichardson, A. S. — Calls attention to the existence of two mounds in 

 the vicinity of West Point, King William County, Virginia. 



