24 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
without basal perforation, 7.75 inches in diameter, bearing no ineised decoration, 
but having an encircling depression below the rim. Тһе ware, which is inferior, 
is tempered with gravel or with small bits of pottery. 
In the neighborhood of skeletal remains was a small celt, having the edge 
entirely chipped away, and part of another. 
Burial No. 3. This burial was a skeleton at full length, 16 inches from the 
surface, so badly decayed that it was traceable by small fragments only. 
Burial No. 4. This pit was oblong, with rounded corners, and measured 
8 feet by 5 feet 9 inches by 4 feet 8 inches deep. Interments were eneountered 
7 inches from the surface and continued down at intervals in the way already 
described. The skeletal remains included sixty-six skulls. With the bones, 
in places, were numerous fragments of bones showing marks of fire, but not 
calcined. 
Unless objects of a perishable nature were placed with the burials in this 
pit, the aborigines presumably considered their duty to the dead fulfilled when 
they had deposited with them: part of a very rude knife of flint; a little powdered 
hematite at one place on the base; probably a rattle, of which but a group of 
small pebbles remained; a pot of earthenware, having by way of decoration a 
series of encircling, parallel, incised lines below the rim. This vessel was so 
badly erushed that determination as to the presence of a basal perforation was 
im possible. 
Burial No. 5. An elliptical pit, only 14 inches deep at the time of our in- 
vestigation, and 7.5 feet by 5 feet in extent. Human bones, including twelve 
skulls, appeared immediately under the surface and continued to the base. It 
may be well to explain that the skulls in this mound were so badly decayed that 
they were invariably erushed and that some were represented by fragments only. 
A fireplace lay beneath part of this pit, but the bones showed no effect of heat 
and the presence of the fireplace perhaps was adventitious. 
No artifaets aecompanied the remains in this grave. 
Burial No. 6. An oblong pit 6 feet 10 inches by 4 feet by 2.5 feet deep, 
with a small offset at one side. Human remains, including twenty-three skulls, 
extended down from 3 inches below the surface. With the remains were an 
undecorated pipe of hard earthenware, shown in Fig. 4, and in section in Fig. 5, 
and part of a somewhat similar one. There was present also a small vessel, in 
fragments (as were all the vessels from this mound with the exception of one 
already described), having in the base a mortuary perforation made before the 
firing of the clay. Also with bones was a lump of pigment tending toward purple 
in shade, especially when damp, similar to that found by us in the mound on 
the Haley Place," on Red river, southwestern Arkansas. It has been determined 
that pigment of this kind is ordinary red hematite that has been subjeeted to 
heat. Presumably the aborigines were aequainted with the method of manu- 
1 “Зоте Aboriginal Sites on Red River," pp. 531 and 548. J ; Sci. 
Phila., Vol. XIV. pp an ourn. Acad. Nat. Sci. of 
