26 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
Burial No. 12. This pit was 8 feet long by 4 feet wide and had at the southern 
Fic. 6.—Pipe of sandstone. Mayes mound. ( 
‘Full size.) 
end an offset 30 inches wide and 
2feetin depth. The depth of the 
grave was 4 feet, and human re- 
mains, including forty-nine crania, 
were present from 10 inches below 
the surface, extending at inter- 
vals to the base. 
Near the surface was a small 
pot with rude line-decoration and 
having a hole broken through the 
base. Two pebbles lay near a 
skull, and in the vicinity of an- 
other was a sandstone lancehead, 
4 inches in length, having marginal 
notches on both sides of the blade. 
This laneehead can hardly have 
been intended for any practical 
purpose. 
Burial No. 13. This pit, in 
the form of an irregular ellipse, 
was 9 feet by 5 feet 2 inches, and 2.5 feet deep. Skeletal remains, among which 
were twenty-five crania, were found, 
some within 3 inches of the surface. 
This grave yielded: a quartz 
pebble slightly biconvex, which had 
the margin, originally roughly circu- 
lar, additionally rounded; an earth- 
enware vessel with a hole in the bot- 
tom, made previous to the firing; 
part of another vessel which had 
been similarly treated. 
Almost on the base, with bones 
on all sides, were two pipes imme- 
diately together. One of these is of 
earthenware, biconical, with scant 
line-decoration. The other, of sand- 
stone, is 3 inches in height and has 
a maximum diameter of 3.2 inches. 
The decoration, which is incised, 
consists mainly of series of crescen- 
Fic. 7.—Pipe of sandstone. Mayes mound. (Full size.) 
tic lines. This pipe is shown in Figs. 6, 7 and in section in Fig. 8. 
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