34 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
at the time, had it not been reported that a mass of entangled logs, trees, and 
driftwood, known as a jam, formed somewhat above Indian bayou, effectually 
blocked the stream. Probably with the force at our command and expenditure 
of time, the jam might have been eontended with successfully, but the result of 
our archeological work on Tensas river had not been such as to encourage us 
to proceed, especially as the report of our agent as to the river above was adverse. 
Inspection of the map accompanying this report might lead one to judge 
that parts of that portion of the Tensas covered by us had been slighted by our 
expedition, since so few places are shown where archeological work was done, 
but in point of fact much of that portion of the Tensas territory investigated by 
us is uninhabited near the river,—mainly timberland, sometimes with heavy 
undergrowth or eanebrake,—and though mounds may be present in woods or 
swamps bordering such parts of the stream, these mounds were not visible or 
in a position to be found by unguided search, nor were inhabitants to be seen 
from whom inquiries could be made. 
The arehzology of Tensas river is in the main uninteresting. Burials 
(which were made in mounds and not in cemeteries) had so few artifacts with 
them that that feature constitutes the most interesting part of the arehzeology 
of the stream. , | 
SITES INVESTIGATED. 
On Indian Village Place, Concordia Parish. 
Near Wildwood Landing, Catahoula Parish. 
On the Flynn Place, Tensas Parish. 
On Alphenia Plantation, Tensas Parish. 
On the Hedgeland Place, Catahoula Parish. 
On the Mound Bayou Place, Tensas Parish. 
On the Lee Place, Tensas Parish. 
At Fool river, Madison Parish. 
Near Indian Bayou, Madison Parish. 
MOUND on INDIAN VILLAGE PLACE, CONCORDIA PARISH. 
About one-quarter mile in from the landing, on property of Mr. H. C. 
Luckett, of Natchez, Miss., is a mound about 5 feet high and approximately 
100 feet in diameter of base. This mound at one time had been quadrangular, 
with a summit-plateau. There was no history of any discovery of artifacts or 
bones on the place, and as the mound had been devoted to burial purposes in 
recent times, no work was done there by us. | 
MOUND NEAR WILDWOOD LANDING, CATAHOULA PARISH. 
About one-half mile westwardly from Wildwood Landing, in a cultivated 
field forming part of the plantation of Mr. Robert J. Eltringham, who resides 
upon it, is a mound fairly symmetrical and evidently about square originally. 
The sides face the cardinal points. Its diameter of base is 100 feet approximately, 
