42 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
and could be easily traced by means of the black soil introduced into the clay 
from above. 
The burials from this place were of the kind we have just described in con- 
nection with the mound at the mouth of Fool river, which is some miles below 
Indian bayou, having been burials at length, with loose bones around them, and 
irregular piles of bones of considerable extent. In all, forty-four skulls, two of 
which had belonged to children, were encountered, in poor condition. 
With one burial were: a small undecorated bowl; a pot of moderate size, 
having by way of decoration a few vertical and diagonal incised lines. The 
bowl rested on a disk of ferruginous sandstone, 2.5 inches in diameter, pitted on 
each side. 
With another burial was a pebble 1.5 inch in diameter, on which rude facets 
had been worked. 
No other artifacts were found with burials or apart from bones. 
Our search for burials in other mounds of this group was unsuccessful. 
BAYOU MACON, LOUISIANA. 
Bayou Maçon (the map showing sites on Bayou Maçon is included with 
that of Tensas river, which precedes) rises in southeastern Arkansas, not far 
from Mississippi river, and flows in a southerly direction, passing into the state 
of Louisiana, where it continues in the same direction until its junction with 
Tensas river. 
The stream flows through comparatively low, alluvial land, considerably 
higher on the western side so far as our investigation extended, on which side of 
the stream the most important sites are to be found. 
Bayou Macon is reported navigable from its mouth to the town of Floyd, 
La., a distance of 112 miles, following the course of the stream. It was explored 
in advance by our agents, Captain Platt and a companion, from Floyd to its 
union with Tensas river, and was investigated by us over the same extent. 
Though no attention has been given by the United States government to 
the removal of snags or of overhanging trees from the bayou farther up than the 
town of Floyd, vet with the high water in the bayou at the time of our visit, no 
doubt with care and with effort our journey could have been considerably length- 
ened, had it not been that the stream a short distance above Floyd was hope- 
lessly blocked, so far as our limited force was concerned, by a long-time accumu- 
lation of driftwood. 
On the whole, our investigation of Bayou Macon was disappointing. The 
stream is not far to the eastward of Bayou Bartholomew and Ouachita river, 
along which were found by us the most beautiful aboriginal pottery known from 
the Mississippi valley, as to which exact data are to be had. Such earthenware 
as was found by us along the bayou was not of a kind to uphold the high repu- 
tation of the best aboriginal ware from the lower Mississippi region. 
! The part of Bayou Maçon investigated by us is in Louisiana. 
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