THOMAS.] 



FULL FACE VESSELS. 



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under ciicum stances of this kind that the vessels representing the 

 human head, one of which, shown in Fig. 130, was found liere. 



Usually in the graves of the horizontal skeletons there was found 

 with eaeh a pot, bowl, or jug near the head, at the feel, or by.the hips; 

 often two and sometimes all three with one skeleton, but it was seldom 

 that two vessels of the same kind or intended for the same use were 

 with one skeleton. The human headed vessels were not together, but 

 adjacent to each other, and, although the large one (shown in Fig. 130) 

 was encircled by skeletons, none M'as nearer than 2 vir 3 feet of it. In 

 some places there were as many as three or four tiers of burials, the 

 lower tiers being considerably deeper than the average mentioned. 



Fio. 130. — Image vessel. Pecau point, Mississippi county, Arkansas. 



Scattered through this cemetery -were fire-beds, .ashes, charcoal, 

 burned stones, and mussel shells from (J inches to 2 feet below the sur- 

 face. The fire beds were layers of burned earth from 6 inches to a 

 foot thick and usually about 10 feet in diameter, with ashes and char- 

 coal on and under them. Skeletons without accompanying relics were 

 sometimes found near these fire beds. 



Figures of som<v of the interesting and rare forms of clay vessels 

 obtained at this place have been published. 



In the central portion of this county, back of Osceola, there is a 

 group of mounds on Frenchman's bayou, G miles west of Golden Lake 

 post-office. 



These are all of the simple, ordinary, conical type, the highest not 



