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covered from these mounds, indicating that the two types represented 

 different cultures. The objects associated with burials in the Veazey 

 mounds and the Copell cemetery, while not especially abundant, were 

 typical of those usually found in mounds in other parts of the country. 

 These included chipped stone and worked bone arrowpoints ; the bone 

 end of an atlatl or " spear thrower " ; beads and other ornaments of 

 shell ; large double-disk or spool shaped ear ornaments of slate covered 

 with native sheet copper ; various types of worked stone, shell and 

 bone implements ; lumps of galena ; hematite ; bitumen ; and decorated 

 potsherds of a characteristic type. The Morgan mounds, on the other 

 hand, produced no such material, but the invariable flattening of the 



Fig. 203. — Large kitchen-midden, or shell heap, on Chenicr du l<ond, south 

 of Grand Lake, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. 



skulls, the different construction of the mounds themselves, and the 

 quite distinctive type of pottery, all point clearly to a different culture. 

 Pecan Island was the most western point on the Louisiana coast at 

 which artificial mounds were found, but kitchen middens were found 

 to continue westward and there are evidences that these extend well 

 into Texas. After examining the aboriginal remains as far west as 

 Grand Chenier in Cameron Parish, Mr. Collins returned eastward and 

 began excavation of a group of three large mounds on the property 

 of Mr. Adolph Melanson, at Gibson, in northern Terrebonne Parish. 

 These mounds were stratified in much the same manner as the four 

 large mounds on Pecan Island, and although a few burials were found 

 in one of them it was obvious that all three had been erected primarily 

 for habitation purposes. 



