ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 43 
The most interesting part of Bayou Macon, speaking from an archeological 
point of view, is, so far as our investigation extended, the great aboriginal site 
at Poverty Point below the town of Floyd, the height of whose principal mound, 
70 feet, in this part of Louisiana, is a revelation! to archeologists. 
SITES INVESTIGATED. 
Hopeka Plantation, Catahoula Parish. 
On Dean Lake, Franklin Parish. 
Near Cut-off Landing, Catahoula Parish. 
The Hickingbottom Place, Franklin Parish. 
The Brannin Place, Franklin Parish. 
Near Turkey Point Landing, Franklin Parish. 
The Canebrake Mounds, Madison Parish. 
The Mott Place, Franklin Parish. 
Near Hope Landing, Madison Parish. 
The Montgomery Place, Madison Parish. 
The Stevens Place, Madison Parish. 
The Insley Place, Franklin Parish. 
The Mound Place, Madison Parish. 
The Lake Place, Madison Parish. 
The Crowroot Place, Madison Parish. 
The Richardson Place, East Carroll Parish. 
Near Lower Jackson Landing, West Carroll Parish. 
The Jackson Place, West Carroll Parish. 
Poverty Point, West Carroll Parish. 
Motley Place, West Carroll Parish. 
Hopeka PLANTATION, CATAHOULA PARISH. 
Hopeka Plantation, near the union of Bayou Magon with Tensas river, is 
the property of Messrs. H. & C. Newman, of New 
Orleans. 
| On the lower part of Hopeka Plantation is а 
field in which are several low rises whose surfaces 
are thickly strewn with bits of pottery and fragments 
of flint. Among these were a few slender arrowheads 
of flint. Also on the surface was found one of those 
objects of earthenware belonging to the class shown 
in Plate II. This one, of the double cone variety 
s $ А : E Fic. 15.—Object of earthenware. 
(Fig. 15), is especially interesting from the fact that норека Plantation. (Full size.) 
a groove has been made around one part of it. 
pnm This site is referred to in Thomas' "Catalogue of Prehistoric Works," p. 104, in which no 
height is mentioned. There is a reference, however, to Prof. Samuel H. Lockett, Smithsonian 
Report, 1872, pp. 429, 430, where the site is briefly described, but the height of the great mound 
is not given. 
