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Also in midden refuse was part of a bowl of a rude pipe of earthenware. 
Professor Holmes, speaking of the earthenware pipes of the region of which the 
Arkansas valley forms part, truly says:! “In the central and southwestern sec- 
tions pipes were for the most part remarkably rude and without grace of outline, 
and generally without embellishment, while the earthenware of the same territory 
was well made and exhibits pronounced indications of esthetic appreciation on the 
part of the potters.” 
Two hundred and fourteen vessels of earthenware, mostly undecorated and of 
ordinary form, came from the neighborhood of the Menard mound. In this number 
we include all vessels, broken and whole, and fragments large enough to show that 
a vessel had been interred. 
While some burials were without accompanying pottery, the majority of inter- 
ments had a mortuary tribute of this kind, especially in the Menard place in the 
vicinity of the mound, and in Mr. Wallace’s field. 
On the other hand, the few burials found by us in the woods, and a fair num- 
ber of skeletons in Mr. Plant’s field, were without artifacts of any sort. 
As a general rule, vessels lay near the heads of burials and were usually single 
or a pair. In exceptional cases vessels were found by us at other parts of the 
skeletons, and on one occasion so many as ten were found with a single burial. 
More fully to illustrate certain of these exceptional cases, we shall describe 
some of Ше noteworthy burials in detail. 
Burial No. 62, bones of a child, had at the skull two bowls of moderate size, 
one inverted; a small bottle, and a diminutive saucer placed on its edge. 
Burial No. 83, the skull of a child from which the remaining bones probably 
had disappeared through decay, had around it no fewer than ten vessels, compris- 
ing two nests of three each and four vessels placed singly, the skull being entirely 
surrounded. 
Burial No. 98, a skeleton lying partly flexed on the right side, had near the 
pelvis, and also near the feet, which drawn back, approached the pelvis, an inverted 
bowl more or less covering two small, inverted bowls, side by side, which were lying 
on a fourth bowl, also inverted. In contact with this mass of pottery was a small 
bowl tilted on its side. 
Incidentally, we may say that decayed shell beads were at the neck of the 
skeleton, and a knife wrought from a chert pebble lay near the skull. 
Burial No. 150 consisted of a bunch of bones with three skulls, one of them 
being that of a child. Crushed against one skull was an inverted bowl, and nearby 
were a teapot-shaped vessel, in fragments, and a bowl. 
Near the child’s skull were two small water-bottles, while the other adult 
skull had near it a vessel of eccentric form. 
The crania in this bunch lay separated one from another, the child’s skull being 
on top, one adult’s skull at one end, and the remaining skull somewhat at the side. 
1“ Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States,” Twentieth Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethnol., p. 98, 
