594 CERTAIN MOUNDS ОҒ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
one was an undecorated bowl; with the other, a bowl bearing rude, encircling 
lines, and having had, above the rim, the head of a bird or quadruped, part of 
which had been broken off before interment. Both bowls were of most inferior 
ware and in fragments. 
The remaining burial was a badly decayed skeleton, closely flexed and lying 
on the right side. 
Apart from human remains, in the mound was a rude knife wrought from 
cherty material. 
MOUND NEAR DOUGLAS, LINCOLN County. 
In the verge of woods, about two miles ESE. from Douglas, on property of 
Мт. В. E. Lake, of Douglas, who kindly placed it at our disposal, was а mound 6.5 
feet high and 70 feet across its circular base. The summit plateau, also circular, 
was 22 feet in diameter. 
The mound had sustained some digging in the past by treasure seekers, we were 
told, and, to a limited extent, оп one or two occasions, by inhabitants of Douglas. | 
This digging, however, had not affected the height of the mound or its diameter. 
On the western side of the mound was a depression, filled with water at the 
time of our visit, whence material for the building of the mound had been taken; 
and a similar, though smaller, depression was on the opposite side. 
After some exploratory digging, it was found that only the core of the mound 
contained burials, and these were superficial, the mound apparently having been 
originally a domiciliary one and subsequently used as a cemetery. 
The core of the mound, 44 feet in diameter, was dug out by us, at first along 
the base, then a little above it, until a portion 16 feet in diameter remained. This 
part was dug out to a depth of 3 feet, as no burials had been met with deeper than 
31 inches. 
Thirty-two burials were encountered, all proving to be of the bunched variety, 
wherever determination was possible. Those not classified were disturbances in 
some cases; in others, where many bones seemed to have disappeared through 
decay. Several also were bones of children, much crushed and disintegrated. 
No skull was found in condition to save or, with one exception, in fragments 
large enough to enable determination as to cranial compression. In this one case, 
no compression was apparent. 
A pathological specimen found by us in this mound was sent to the United 
States Army Medical Museum. Dr. D. 8. Lamb, pathologist of that institution, 
kindly has reported on the bone as follows: 
“The right femur, from mound near Douglas, Arkansas County, Ark., Burial 
No. 12, shows marked atrophy of the head of the bone and downward displace- 
ment, the neck forming an acute angle with the shaft, probably a case of tubercu- 
lous hipjoint. I say ‘probably,’ but I know of no other cause than tuberculosis 
that would cause such a lesion.” 
But few artifacts except pottery were present in the mound. With several 
burials were shell beads. 
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