488 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND ОҒ MISSISSIPPI. 
Many fragments of crania, of considerable size, were found, some showing 
marks of post-natal compression and some evidently being parts of normal skulls. 
No fixed orientation as to the head was noted in the burials found, skeletons 
having been interred with the skulls pointing in all directions. 
The forms of burial were as follows: 
Full length on back, 31." 
Closely flexed, lying on the right side, 5. 
Closely flexed, lying on the left side, 4. 
Closely flexed, face down, 1. 
Partly flexed, lying on the right side, 17. 
Partly flexed, lying on the left side, 5. 
Оп back, the limbs widely separated, 1. 
Full length on back, feet crossed, 1. — 
Trunk on back, knees slightly flexed to the right, 1. 
Bunched burials, 39. 
Bunches or aboriginal disturbances, 2. 
Disturbances, modern and aboriginal, 18. 
Layers of bones, 2. 
Children, bones often too decayed for determination of position, 23. 
Badly decayed adult bones, 2. 
Incompletely described in field-notes, 6. 
Particularly described, 2. 
The two burials to be particularly described are as follows: 
Burial No. 12 was the skeleton of an adolescent, fifteen inches down, head 
NW., trunk on the back, the lower extremities turned to the left and slightly 
flexed, the legs being drawn tightly against the thighs. 
Burial No. 108, fourteen inches below the surface, was a skeleton of an adult, 
with parts detached, yet not exactly a bunch. | 
We shall now describe in detail certain burials which are included in the fore- 
going list, to introduce the association of artifacts. АП individual skeletons not 
otherwise defined were those of adults. 
Burial No. 9, sixteen inches down, consisted of a bunch of children's bones, 
including three skulls. Near one skull were nine fresh-water, univalve shells, 
kindly identified by Dr. H. A. Pilsbry as Vzvīparus subpurpureus, the upper por- 
tions cut off to allow the use of the shells as beads. 
Burial No. 10, eighteen inches deep (all depths are taken to the upper 
surface of the burials), consisted of a mass of bones in a grave distinctly traceable 
from the surface down. 
These bones, an ideal example of the bunched form of burial (Fig. 1), lay in 
a symmetrical pile, the long-bones parallel, the smaller bones stowed away here 
and there between them. 
! Two children lying side by side in one grave are included as a single burial. 
* One consisting of bones of three children. Some bunches had two, three, four, five, апа two 
had seven skulls each. 
