ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 13 
often found in this region, consisted of a layer of skeletal remains, including nine 
crania. l 
With these bones was a fractured humerus showing a fair union of the parts, 
all conditions considered. This specimen was sent as a gift to the Army Medical 
Museum, Washington, D. C., where a large collection of pathological specimens 
presented by us may be seen. 
No artifact lay with the bones, although these people had pottery, as 
fragments marked with imprints of stamps were in the soil, and one part of a 
vessel was found having below the rim, five parallel, encircling, incised lines, 
each line, at intervals, having punctate markings. 
On the surface of the mound was found part of a celt of igneous rock, having 
a flaring cutting edge and evidently having formed part of a graceful tool. 
MOUND on LITTLE PIGEON Bayou, IBERIA PARISH. 
On property belonging to Mr. Charles Forgy, of Berwick, La., on Little 
Pigeon bayou, is a mound in woods, about one-quarter mile SSW. from the 
landing. This mound, 5 feet in height and 75 feet across its circular base, was 
investigated by us to a limited extent only, as it was soon to be employed as a 
refuge in the approaching high water. It was, so nearly as we could determine, 
composed of raw clay and probably never had been a burial mound. 
MOUND’ ох SORREL Bayou, IBERVILLE PARISH. 
About a mile and a half along Sorrel bayou from its junction with Grand 
river is a mound in full view from the water, on property belonging to Messrs. 
A. Wilbert’s Sons, of Plaquemine, La., whose large holdings of real estate in this 
region were most courteously placed by them at the disposal of the Academy 
for investigation. 
The mound, most picturesquely situated, about 16 feet in height, is in the 
form of a truncated cone, with a diameter of 140 feet. It has been used exten- 
sively for burial purposes during the last seventy years and is covered with 
crosses and head-stones. Digging into it was deemed inadvisable. 
In contact with and about surrounding the northern half of the mound 
(ENE. to WSW.) is a kind of platform with some irregularity of surface. The 
maximum height of this platform at the western end, where it is 100 feet broad 
(12 feet of which belongs to the slope), is 6 feet. From this end the platform 
slopes downward somewhat toward the eastern end, where it again ascends, 
reaching a height of 5.5 feet. At this end the platform is 145 feet across, 20 feet 
of which is slope. 
Trial-holes sunk in this platform showed that it increased during aboriginal 
! This mound is shown on the United States Government “Мар of the Alluvial Valley of 
the Mississippi River, from the head of St. Francis Basin to the Gulf of Mexico." Published 
y the Mississippi River Commission. A most useful publication for those interested in this 
region. 
