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92 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
We found on the surface of a low mound, a pipe of earthenware, probably 
representing a wolf or a dog (Fig. 6). The ware is shell-tempered; the modeling, 
without artistic merit. 
Thirteen trial-holes sunk into the mound on which this pipe lay were without 
reward. 
We did but a moderate amount of digging on and among the mounds near 
George lake, finding two burials lying near the surface, which had undergone 
disturbance. 
There was little inducement to dig, as superficial burials, had there ever been 
Fic. 6.—Pipe of earthenware. Mound near George Lake. (Full size.) 
апу, in summit plateaus of the mounds must have been long since plowed and 
washed away, and the same conditions, no doubt, largely existed in the level 
ground. 
Such other mounds as were investigated yielded nothing. 
Another discouraging feature was the almost entire absence of history of the 
discovery of bones or of artifacts on the plantation, despite deep and constant 
cultivation and wash of rain, through which the level ground in places, as well as 
the mounds, is deeply furrowed. 
At George lake our journey up the Sunflower river was abandoned, although, 
as we have said, the stream had been reconnoitered by our agents as far as Faisonia, 
79 miles above, by water. 
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