CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 525 
Burial No. 9 had a bottle and a bowl near the skull. and at the neck, tubular 
beads of sheet-brass and small shell beads. 
Burial No. 17, a bunched burial, had at one end two skulls side by side. 
Immediately above one of these skulls, and covering part of it and the whole of a 
downturned vessel resembling the one shown in Plate XIN, which lay against the 
skull, was an inverted bowl, decorated with red paint. Alongside the first-men- 
tioned vessel, but not covered by the bowl, lay, on its side, a small vessel of the 
*teapot" variety. Near this group of vessels were two others, one being a small 
bottle, decorated with a coating of red pigment; the other, a little vessel of coarse, 
yellow ware, having two compartments—no doubt a highly-conventionalized, open- 
bivalve form. With the two skulls described (which had belonged to adults) and 
their aecompanying bones, were the skull and bones of an infant, which fact 
explains, no doubt, the presence of the smaller vessels. Near the chin of the 
infant’s skull, that is to say at the neck, was a necklace of tubular beads of sheet- 
brass, the material on which they were strung still holding the beads in place. 
Near these were two diminutive, penannular bracelets of sheet-copper, of а size 
suited to baby arms (Fig. 41), round in cross-section, and tied together, the cord 
still intact through the agency of the salts of copper. Near the bracelets were one 
glass bead and one tubular bead of brass. 
At the opposite end of this bunched burial, away from the skulls, were two 
vessels together, both inverted and both (a bottle and a “ teapot”) belonging to 
classes of vessels rarely found in that position. 
Burial No. 22, that of an infant, had near small fragments of the skull, а 
necklace (Fig. 42) made up of tubular beads of sheet-brass and shell beads, the 
material on which the beads were strung being still capable of sustaining the 
weight of the necklace. Nearby were nine large shell beads, and a few shells 
kindly identified by Dr. H. A. Pilsbry as Marginella apicina. A part of each of 
these shells had been cut away to fit them for use as beads, and some of them were 
still in place on a fragment of cord. Doubtless all of them had formed part of the 
necklace. 
Five pebbles, two of which were much polished on one side, lay together under 
part of an earthenware vessel. 
With a burial were two vessels, one of which, a bowl, was inverted over a 
mass of what Dr. H. F. Keller has determined to be almost pure kaolin. This clay, 
no doubt, served as white paint, as we have pointed out elsewhere in this report. 
Fifty-three vessels came from the mound at Douglas, taking into account all 
that were found, though many were crushed beyond restoration. The vessels 
present little variety of form and do not vary greatly in decoration. 
Practically every bowl met with was inverted, as were some other vessels, but 
very exceptionally the bottles. 
Some vessels were interesting as to apposition. 
Vessel No. 45, a bowl, was inverted over a small bowl and a very diminutive 
bottle, both of which were lying on their sides. 
