ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 31 
The most interesting feature connected with the pottery from this mound is 
the presence in the vessels, almost without exception, of the eeremonial, basal 
perforation. The more interesting vessels from this place are shown in Figs. 9, 
I, 41-1218. 
Fra. 12.— Vessel of earthenware. Mayes mound. Fic. 13.—Vessel of earthenware. Mayes mound, 
(Height 2.7 inches.) (Height 8 inches.) 
In a trial-hole which did not encounter bones, was a barbed arrowhead of 
flint, about one inch in length. 
About 130 paces WSW. from the mound just described is the other mound. 
which is irregularly circular in outline, about 4 feet in height and 180 feet in 
diameter. This mound was carefully searched without any indication of its 
former use as a place of burial. 
WILEY PLACE, CATAHOULA PARISH. 
The place belonging to Mr. Mitchell Wiley, who resides upon it, is about 
at the middle of the southern shore of Lake Larto. It is to this place the lake 
owes its reputation as a center for the discovery of aboriginal relies, and not to 
the Mayes mounds, which presumably had not been investigated before our 
coming. 
Immediately on the shore of the lake, on Mr. Wiley’s place, are three low 
mounds of irregular outline, apparently greatly worn as each has a building 
