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ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 19 
was not accorded it, as the water was rising rapidly at the time of our visit and 
the mound was likely soon to be required as a refuge for stock. 
There is no history of the discovery of aboriginal relics at this place. A 
few small bits of undecorated pottery were seen by us at the base of the mound, 
and a delicate, barbed arrowhead of flint was pieked up on it. 
Bayou Teche, to the westward of the Atchafalaya region, this season was 
visited by us without advance search, and inquiries were made as to the existence 
of mounds, almost to St. Martinville, the head of navigation, 85 miles from 
Morgan City, following the course of the stream. 
The banks of this bayou were under cultivation or occupied by towns or 
mills without interruption so far as visited by us, and the region evidently has 
been thickly inhabited for too long a time to offer archeological returns of much 
interest. 
Several mounds were reported to us as being in the back country and 
probably under water at the time (April, 1913). Another mound, visited by us, 
had been almost plowed away. 
At Moro plantation, St. Mary Parish, belonging to Mr. Oscar Zenor of 
Calumet, La., are two mounds near together and in full view from the water. 
The mound nearer the bayou, 13 feet in height and about 100 feet in diam- 
eter of base, had been dug into somewhat previous to our visit, and one side 
had been removed, perhaps by wash, leaving so steep a section that it was 
possible to fall from the summit to the base on that side. 
Although this mound was connected with a shell ridge on the eastern side, 
formed almost entirely of a variety of clam-shell, Rangia cuneata, and midden 
deposit extending along the bank of the river, such excavations as were made 
by us in the mound showed only scattering shells, and no mass of shells was 
apparent at the section where the interior of the mound was laid bare. 
Apparently the mound was made of tough clay. But one skeleton was 
found; this lay 16 inches below the surface, extended face downward. A previous 
exeavation had cut away the skull and the right side of the thorax. 
The second mound, 10.5 feet high and about 110 feet in basal diameter, had 
been under cultivation and great furrows remained on its surface, though it was 
overgrown with underbrush and grass at the time of our visit. 
This mound, so far as excavated by us, was of hard clay without sign of 
burials. 
Immediately across the bayou from Charenton is the home of Mr. F. C. 
Viguere. One mile across country from this gentleman's residence, in 8t. Mary 
parish, near the border of Grand lake, are five mounds composed largely of shell, 
and various shell ridges. 
These mounds, with one exception, were covered with growing sugar-cane, 
so that our investigation was restrieted to this one, which was 7 feet high and 
about 125 feet in diameter. 
