NO. 14 CADDO BURIAL SITE WALKER II 



Merely as a record of negative characteristics, the fact may be 

 mentioned that no pottery was found with any of the following types 

 of ornamentation : Cord markings ; punctate, stamped, or rouletted 

 patterns ; or painted designs other than the color-filled lines noted. 



The only other ceramic object reported from this site was the pipe 

 bowl shown in plate 4, c. It measures if inches in height and is 

 made of the same kind of shell-tempered clay except that the particles 

 of shell are more minute than in the pots. In the illustration some 

 scratchings appear on the side of the bowl that might be mistaken for 

 a design, but they appear on closer inspection to be only accidental. 



As has been mentioned the ware from Natchitoches is very homo- 

 geneous, and no suggestion of stratification has been found at the 

 Cane River site that would indicate an earlier occupation by people of 

 a different culture, but the presence of European objects in the 

 same graves leads to the conclusion that the pottery is seemingly of 

 late origin and probably represents the climax in ceramic art reached 

 by the potters of that particular tribe. 



ASSOCIATED OBJECTS 



A few stone axes and flint points were found by the workmen, but 

 nothing definite could be learned about them. Undoubtedly, however, 

 they differed but little from those in the collections of Mr. Williamson 

 and Mr. Payne, as the specimens there exhibited came mostly from 

 the immediate vicinity of Natchitoches. The axes are grooved near 

 the butt and show various gradations of ground and polished sur- 

 faces. The celts are of both the long, pestlelike type and the flat, broad 

 type. Notched and stemmed forms predominate among the chipped 

 flint arrow and spearpoints. They are made of several kinds of col- 

 ored flint, including novaculite from southwestern Arkansas, although 

 much of the flint could have come from the small boulders and pebbles 

 carried down by the river. In shape these artifacts range from tiny, 

 serrated, sharp points to large, broad, leaf-shaped blades or spear- 

 points with short stems. Some rather unusual types also occur, 

 such as notched and stemmed points with a second pair of notches 

 on the blade, and a few small delicate forms with only a single barb, 

 or with distinctly recurved barbs. Some of these have a slight re- 

 semblance to certain fish scales, particularly to those of the gar-pike. 

 A number of writers have spoken of the Louisiana Indians using fish 

 scales for arrowpoints," and it is just possible that they may have 



" Swanton, Op. cit., p. 58. 



