ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 2 
Burial No. 22. This grave was perplexing. It was irregularly oblong, 7 
feet long with ends 3 feet 9 inches and 3 feet 4 inches, respectively. Its depth was 
3 feet 4 inches. Only two skulls were discovered in the pit, accompanied by a 
limited amount of minute fragments of other bones, some within & inches of the 
surface. It seemed unlikely that the aborigines would make a grave of such 
large size for so limited an interment. The grave was filled with roots of a large 
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Fia. 10.— Vessel of earthenware. Mayes mound. (Height 5.1 inches.) 
tree, growing nearby, and it is barely possible that many of the bones were ab- 
sorbed by them. 
From this pit came an undecorated, biconical pipe of earthenware, from 
which a small part of the bow] had been broken before its inhumation. 
This pit apparently had cut through a narrow and shallow grave in which 
were a skull and other bones that may have been a burial at length. 
A few inches distant from the larger grave, but clearly separated by the 
yellow clay, was a small, shallow pit filled with dark soil, in which, however, no 
bones were found. 
