ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 17 
lived for four months during the great flood of 1912. The plateau, it was said, 
then was larger than at present, but had worn away under this prolonged and 
congested occupancy. In height the mound slightly exceeds 11 feet; its diameter 
of base is about 95 feet each way. 
It was evident the mound had been occupied for a considerable period in 
aboriginal times, and that graves had been dug into it, probably from the surface, 
and filled with a black, superficial soil differing in color from the clay of which 
the mound had been made. Presumably, however, the dark surface soil had 
been mostly worn away from the mound, as it was present only in graves, of 
which five were encountered. Four of these graves held scattered fragments of 
bones, probably disturbances, all about one foot from the surface. One burial, 
16 inches down, was of the bunched variety, with one skull. 
In view of the reliance placed on this mound as a place of retreat by those 
living near it, and that the rising water was not far from its base at the time of our 
visit, we did not feel justified in undertaking more extensive digging into it. 
In a SSW. direction from the quadrangular mound is another in the form of 
a truncated cone, 8 feet in height and about 90 feet in diameter. This mound 
had dark soil extending more than two feet down in places, but considerable 
digging failed to discover burials. | 
In the dark soil was found a graceful bead of granite, tubular in the main, 
but expanding slightly at the center; it measures somewhat more than one and 
one-half inch in length and one-half inch in maximum diameter. 
This mound is promising in appearance, and under different conditions a 
large central exeavation would have been sunk to its base. 
The third mound, an insignificant affair, is composed of tough clay. А very 
brief investigation was accorded it. 
Mowunps on Bayou La Roses, St. Martin PARISH. 
About 200 yards from the bank of Bayou La Rose is a mound 7 feet in height 
and about 95 feet in diameter of base. This mound, in woodland belonging 
to Mr. J. S. Martin, of St. Martinville, La., was surrounded by water at the time 
of our visit, and no digging into it was attempted. Near it was a small mound 
in part covered by water, which also was left untouched. 
MOUND ON THE WILBERT PROPERTY, IBERVILLE PARISH. 
About 100 yards in from the east bank of Atchafalaya river, in woodland 
belonging to Messrs. A. Wilbert’s Sons, of Plaquemine, is a mound about circular 
in basal outline and 60 feet in diameter. The height is from 18 inches to 2 feet. 
The mound proved to be a mass of roots and tough clay and yielded no return. 
MOUNDS on Bayou GROSSE TÊTE, IBERVILLE PARISH. 
On Grosse Téte bayou, on property of the L. O. Landry Co., of Grosse 
Téte, La., are two mounds which were visited by our agent, one reported to be 
