CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 487 
The mound, a truncated cone, imposing in appearance, is 34.5 feet in height, 
measured from the north, where the surrounding territory is somewhat high; meas- 
ured from the northwest, where there is a depression, the height of the mound is 
from 3 to 4 feet greater. 
The basal diameter of the mound is 167 feet; the diameter of the summit 
plateau is 28 feet. On the southwest is a causeway of considerable size. 
It is not in the mound, however, though some digging has deen done into it 
in the past, that the burials and accompanying artifacts, which have made the 
place famous, have been found, but in small rises of the ground in the adjacent 
land—dwelling-sites—and even in perfectly level ground. In all directions on the 
surrounding territory lie bits of pottery and fragments of human bones; in the 
fields; in the gardens; by the roadside; everywhere, in fact; and there is no 
inhabitant of the neighborhood but has exact details to give, based on personal 
experience, of the finding of quantities of aboriginal pottery. 
Unfortunately for late comers, like ourselves, the constant wash of rain over 
soil loosened by cultivation had laid bare a majority of the burials, or so removed 
the soil above them that the plow had wrought sad havoc among bones and pottery ; 
while desultory digging also had levied a considerable toll. In consequence, only 
gleanings remained for us from a former abundant harvest. 
Our work near the Menard mound, with from eleven to thirteen men to dig, 
lasted twelve working days and began in the neighborhood of the Menard home, 
where the curious spectacle was presented of the unearthing by us of a number of 
burials, with accompanying vessels of earthenware, in Mr. Menard's * front yard,’ 
between his veranda and the garden fence. 
Our investigations continued over the Menard orchard and fields ; were carried 
on for a number of days in the dwelling-sites of Mr. Wallace’s fields and woods, 
situated in a northeasterly direction from the mound; were extended to the field 
of Mr. Plant, somewhat farther in the same direction, and to the woods of Mr. 
N. Menard. 
Our work in all the woods, however, was without success, so far as the dis- 
covery of pottery is concerned, though small mounds and rises of the ground are 
present in them in abundance. 
One hundred and sixty burials were met with during our work near the 
Menard mound. 
The bones varied somewhat as to condition, some being badly decayed, while 
in other cases long-bones were recovered entire. 
Some of the bones showed the effects of inflammatory conditions; one instance 
of anchylosis of the radio-ulnar articulation was found; and also a reunited frac- 
ture of a radius and an ulna. The two latter specimens were sent to the United 
States Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Certain crania from this place were preserved, and in common with all crania 
found by us along the Arkansas river, are described by Dr. Hrdlicka in a report 
which, as we have said, forms the concluding portion of this part of our report. 
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