ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 2] 
supposed to be a single grave and ^ SN 
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sion for a distanee of at least 4 feet, ۹ 
after the firing of the clay; another Bio: 8-—Pipe. FE i (Full ам) 
of its rounded ends, and 3 feet 2 inches in depth. Skeletal remains were within 
we were unable to decide, owing to the condition of the ware. 
Burial No. 17. This grave, oblong with rounded ends, 8 feet 5 inches by 
Burial No. 19, a long and narrow grave, 8 feet in length, 2 feet 9 inches 
burials from both of them were noted 
it was then too late to determine “ 
vessel with the bottom ceremonially 
one foot from the surface and included eighteen skulls. 
Burial No. 16. This pit, cireular, so nearly as we could determine, was 34 
4 feet 7 inches, and 1 foot 9 inches deep, contained human remains with eight 
across at the middle and 2 feet wide at each end. The depth was 2 feet 3 inches. 
Burials Nos. 14 and 18. Pit No. 14, 8 feet by 2 feet 8 inches, and 2 feet 
4 inches deep, was contiguous to Pit No. 18, which was 6 feet 3 inches by 6 feet 
as belonging to one pit. Later, when 
it was found that there were two ` 
which burials scored had belonged to > 
each grave, and consequently all from 
both graves are noted together. 
Human bones were first encoun- 
tered 10 inches from the surface. With 
them were forty-one crania. N 
Mortuary deposits in this grave 
were as follows: an earthenware ves- SS 
broken out; a small undecorated bowl having a hole broken through the base; 
a lump of yellow ochre. 
Artifaets with the remains were: a flint pebble about the size of a fist; 
another considerably smaller; a pottery vessel through the base of which had 
inches in diameter and 13 inches deep. It contained fragments of badly-decayed 
bones on its base, but if any eranium had been present its parts were not in a 
skulls, extending to within six inches of the surface. "There were no associated 
artifacts. 
This grave, which held four skulls with other skeletal remains, the bones being 
within 8 inches of the surface in places, had been somewhat longer than the 
10 inches, and 3 feet deep. When these graves were first discovered they were 
graves in actual contact without divi- 
sel having a hole in the base, made 
Burial No. 15. А pit 10 feet 5 inches long and 5 feet 9 inches across each 
been a ceremonial hole, but whether made before or after the firing of the clay 
condition to identify. 
Burial No. 18 has been described in connection with Burial No. 14. 
measurement given, but had been eut across at one end by Burial No. 18. 
