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ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 45 
Burial No. 7. This burial, a bunch with a single skull, was in the yellow 
clay, 22 inches from the surface. 
MOUNDS NEAR CUT-OFF LANDING, CATAHOULA PARISH. 
By the side of a disused highroad, about 250 yards in a westerly direction 
from Cut-off Landing, on property belonging to Mr. H. A. Lewis, of Wisner, La., 
is a small remant of a mound, the remainder of which has fallen into the € ‘ut-off, 
a bayou entering Bayou Macon nearby. 
Four holes sunk into this remnant (about all it would accommodate) each 
came upon skeletal remains, five burials in all being encountered. Of these, 
three were bunched burials, the bones all badly decayed, not arranged in piles 
but forming long and comparatively narrow deposits. One of these burials had 
sixteen skulls; one had nine skulls, three of which had belonged to children; 
and one had two skulls, one of which was that of a child. There were also two 
full-length burials of adults, extended on the back. All these burials were 
without mortuary deposit of any kind. 
About one-quarter mile westwardly from Cut-off Landing, in a fallow field 
also belonging to Mr. Lewis, is a mound 11 feet in height, which has been so 
subjected to wash of rain (the earth having perhaps been loosened by trampling 
of cattle) that the sides are furrowed to such an extent that the mound has no 
regularity of outline. Measurements taken in two directions gave respectively 
as diameters of base 127 feet and 118 feet, but other measurements, we are con- 
vinced, would show a more marked divergence. 
Seven trial-holes put down in the upper parts of the mound went through 
mixed soil to a depth of slightly more than 3 feet where they reached a layer of 
dark material 9 inches thick. Below this layer was hard, yellow clay containing 
no admixture. 
Evidently this mound had been constructed to a certain height and then had 
served as a place of domicile for a considerable time, as evidenced by the dark 
layer. Later the mound had been increased in height by about 3 feet, not by the 
addition of clay dug from one place, but gathered here and there superficially. 
No sign of interment was encountered. 
About one-half mile above Cut-off Landing, on the bank of the bayou, is 
the home of Mr. E. L. Lewis. A short distance from the house, by the side of a 
road which has cut a part from it, is an irregular rise about 2 feet in height and 
so worn and washed that it is almost impossible to distinguish the mound from 
the surrounding area. Considerable digging into this rise showed it to be com- 
posed of raw clay. No evidence of artificial origin was encountered. 
MOUND on THE HICKINGBOTTOM PLACE, FRANKLIN PARISH. 
In woods belonging to Mr. Louis Hickingbottom, residing nearby, is a 
mound, 1 foot 9 inches in height, in sight from the stream. The outline is 
irregular. Two diameters were 75 feet and 95 feet. This mound apparently 
had been built for residential purposes, as no sign of interments was discovered. 
