ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 15 
any of the village war chiefs, of whom there were four or five, their bones were dug 
up by a certain class of ministrants called ‘turkey-buzzard men’ (osh hd’ tch‘na) 
the remaining flesh separated, the bones wrapped in a new and checkered mat 
and brought to that lodge. . . . After which the bones were placed in a mound. 
. . . The burial of the common people was effected in the same way, one year 
after death; but the inhumation of the bones took place at the village where they 
had died." 
No artifact of any kind was found in association with the burials. In the 
midden débris were: four implements of bone, each having the articular part 
remaining at one end; several broken bone implements; three of those objects of 
clay to which referenee has been made and of which full description will be 
given later; and a rude knife of chert. 
The fragments of pottery from this place are of good, hard ware, sometimes 
fairly thin, and indieate vessels presenting a variety of shapes and decoration 
of average excellence. One fragment shows uniform decoration with red pig- 
ment, and a number of others bear imprints made apparently by the aid of a 
stamp. 
MOUND NEAR THE SCHWING PLACE, IBERVILLE PARISH. 
At the Schwing Place, on Grand river, said to belong to Messrs. Wilbert’s 
Sons, of Plaquemine, La., are remains of a railroad extending inland.  Fol- 
lowing this road for about one mile and then entering woods on the south side 
of the track, a distance of about 200 feet, one reaches a mound between 4 and 
5 feet in height and about 75 feet in diameter. 
Eleven trial-holes showed the mound to be variously composed, some of 
the holes reaching clay of a light shade, comparatively well up in the mound, 
others going through black soil, evidently midden material, down to what 
seemed to be the base. 
The more central trial-holes came upon six burials, as follows: two bunched 
burials, each with one skull; a burial at full length, too much decayed to determine 
if originally it had lain on the back or prone; the skeleton of a child; the skull and 
the upper half of the trunk of an adult skeleton, the rest missing through some 
cause that was not apparent; a skeleton at full length on the back. 
The full-length skeleton described as badly decayed lay with six inches 
of earth above it. Three inches below the skull, or about 15 inches down, was 
a deposit of objects of earthenware, thirty-two in fairly good condition and a 
number of imperfect ones and fragments. The deposit was not heaped, but was 
spread at the same level. These objects are of the kind referred to before in 
this report, and belong to the type of artifacts found in great numbers at Poverty 
Point, on Bayou Macon, La., examples of which are shown in Plate II, and which 
will be fully described in connection with the Poverty Point site. The objects 
from that place have various shapes, but those under description from the 
Schwing Place mound belong, such as are whole, to two classes, one having the 
