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facture of this pigment and that its occurrence is not owing to accidental contaet 
with fire. 
Burials Nos. 7, 10, 11, respectively 7 inches, 6 inches, 1 foot from the surface, 
were interments of adults extended on the back. No artifacts were in association. 
Burial No. 8. This grave-pit, which included in its contents twenty-one 
skulls, was oblong, 8 feet by 4 feet by 3 feet deep. Bones were first encountered 
6 inches from the surface. With the remains was a small bowl bearing rude, 
Fia. 4.—Pipe of earthenware. Mayes mound. Fie. 5.—Pipe. Vertical section. (Full size.) 
(Full size.) 
incised, scroll decoration. The base of this bowl was not present with the other 
parts recovered by us, and presumably had been knocked out ceremonially. 
Another small bowl was found having rude, lined decoration and so badly broken 
that determination as to a basal hole was not possible. 
A part of a large earthenware pipe from this pit, consisting of most of that 
portion made for the reception of the stem, bears on each of two opposite sides, 
two concentric circles surrounding a dot. Around the orifice for the stem is a 
deeply incised circle, and the beginning of other decoration, also incised, is on 
the top of the fragment. | 
There were also found separately in the pit, a small bicave of coarse sand- 
stone, and an arrowhead, or knife, of flint, having but one shoulder, a peculiarity 
already on record! as occurring on some flint points from this (Catahoula) 
parish. 
Burial No. 9. Oblong, with rounded corners, 7.5 feet in length, the two 
ends being respectively 3 feet and 3 feet 8 inches across. The grave was 1 foot 
8 inches in depth, and bones, including seven skulls, lay within four inches of 
the surface. In association with the interments was a lump of yellow ochre in a 
deposit consisting of a rude lancehead of quartzite, slightly more than 5 inches in 
length; two lanceheads of flint, each about 3 inches long; and a lancepoint or 
arrowhead, also of flint, having a length of 2.5 inches. 
! Gerard Fowke, “Stone Art." Thirteenth An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 156, fig. 218. 
