CATALOGUE OF RELICS. 435 



in Franklin County, Southern Central Pennsylvania, within GOO feet of 

 the ancient war-lodge of the Senecas. 



184: to 186, inclusive. Arrow-heads from Tennessee. 



187 to 196, inclusive. Fragments of pottery, from some very remarkable 

 mouuds, three miles southeast of Frankliu, Williamson County, Tenn. 



197. Fragment of pottery, from South Hadley, Mass. 



193. Fragment of pottery, from mound in Ohio. 



199. Fragment of brick, from mound in Iowa. 



200 to 203, inclusive. Fragments of pottery, from mounds in Georgia. 



204 to 206, inclusive. Fragments of pottery, from mound in Maury 

 County, Tennessee. 



Arroic-heads. — Three packages of these were sent in one of the boxes, 

 respectively collected in the New England States, in the Western 

 States, and in the Southern States, and the aforesaid division of States 

 marked on the packages accordingly. It had been my aim to collect 

 arrow-heads of the various tribes of Indians, and to have preserved them 

 thus distinct in the cabinet ; but I found that the differences in shapes, 

 style, &c., were so slight (if at all distinct) as not to justify the trouble. 



Ancient pottery. 



All of the pottery sent is from an ancient burial-place in Arkansas, 

 with one exception — a portion of a bowl, (say one half,) broken, I think, 

 in two pieces, and in appearance so very thick and clumsy, com])ared 

 with the other specimens, that its recognition is a matter of no difiBcnIty. 

 This bowl is from an Indian grave at "Hamilton Place," (residence of 

 Gen. Lucius Q, Polk,) Maury County, Tennessee. 



At " Maple Grove," Manry Couuty, Tennessee, February 7, 1860, 

 Jerome B. Pillow, esq., (brother of Gen. Gideon J. Pillow,) made the 

 following statement in regard to the ancient pottery discovered by him, 

 and then and there presented to me : 



■' The spot where this pottery was found is in Phillips County, Ar- 

 kansas, adjacent to the Mississippi River, and (measured along the 

 river) eighteen and three-fourths miles below Helena." 



A map of the locality is given in the accompanying Fig. 1. 



The point designated A is the ancient burying-place where the pot- 

 tery was procured. 



In the construction of the levee across Old Town Lake and Long 

 Lake a vast quantity of earth was required to make the embankment, 

 and to procure which Mr. Jerome B. Pillow commenced removing ma- 

 terial from a site which i)roved to have been a most extensive cemetery. 

 Hundreds of human skeletons of all ages and of both sexes were ex- 

 humed, and with them many specimens of pottery of varied shapes and 

 sizes. The skeletons were found buried in a sitting posture, and from 

 three to ten feet below the surface j the bones in all cases in a perfect 

 state of preservation. 



