586 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
At this point on the Yazoo river, there being no report from mounds farther 
up to justify hope of greater success in returns, the investigation of the river banks 
and the adjacent territory was abandoned by us, although, as we have said, abund- 
ant work had been mapped out by our agent as far as Sharkey, about 70 miles 
above by water. 
MOUNDS AND SITES INVESTIGATED ON THE SUNFLOWER RIVER. 
Mound near Anderson Landing, Sharkey County. 
Mound near Bachelor Retreat Landing, Sharkey County. 
Mounds near Wrong-end-up Landing, Yazoo County (8). 
Mounds at Spanish Fort Landing, Sharkey County (3). 
Mound at Fairview Landing, Yazoo County. 
Mound on Fairview Plantation, Yazoo County. 
Mounds at Stalonia Landing, Sharkey County (3). 
Mounds near George Lake, Yazoo County (a large group). 
MOUND NEAR ANDERSON LANDING, SHARKEY COUNTY. 
In woods about one-quarter mile E. by 8. from Anderson Landing, on property 
probably belonging to Messrs. George Т. Houston & Co., of Chicago, Ill., to whom 
the Academy is especially indebted for the fullest and most cordial permission to 
excavate all mounds on the great territory owned by them, on the Sunflower river, 
and for kind offers to facilitate its work in every possible way, is a mound 6 feet 
7 inches in height and 62 feet across its circular base. 
This mound, which gave evidence of former, but apparently somewhat super- 
ficial, investigation, was dug out by us in the central part, the excavation being 7 
feet 6 inches, by 12 feet, by 7 feet 4 inches deep, the sides of the hole being 
carried squarely down. 
Near the surface were disturbed human bones with which were fragments of a 
vessel of yellow ware without shell-tempering. This vessel (No. 1), whose parts 
have been put together, has a quadrilateral body with rounded corners, on which 
is a decoration partly punctate and partly produced by the trailing of a broad- 
pointed implement. Below the upper margin of the vessel is a circular band of 
evenly made, reticulated lines, and an encircling line of imprints, made with the end 
of a blunt tool (Fig. 3). 
About 3 feet 9 inches from the surface was a small, undecorated bowl of dark 
ware (Vessel No. 2), in fragments, with mere traces of a skull and teeth nearby. 
Six feet 9 inches down, presumably on the base of the mound, near what were 
probably traces of human bones, was Vessel No. 8, in fragments (Fig. 4). Тһе 
yellow ware is without shell-tempering. Below the rim is a rude, cross-hatch deco- 
ration, while the body of the vessel has a primitive, trailed design, three times 
represented, showing a serpent (Fig. 5). 
While we were engaged on other and more superficial work in the mound, an 
undecorated vessel in small fragments was encountered. 
