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layer beneath to be undisturbed. Some distance from the other bones was 
part of a left radius in equally good condition. Presumably there had been some 
disturbance. 
In other parts of the mound were an arrowhead of flint with shoulders and 
a stem, and that part of an earthenware platform, or "monitor," pipe, in which 
the hole is present, having a small part of the bowl. 
Presumably Mound A was domiciliary in the main. 
Mound B was variously composed. Seemingly it had been built upon a 
dwelling-site of very dark soil containing some mussel-shells. This dark. 
basal part was reached at different depths. Above this was the later mound. 
in places made of dark soil, in other parts of a clay lighter in shade. 
Burials in this mound cut through no layer, but lay in and under homoge- 
neous material so that it was impossible to distinguish pits. 
Fourteen trial-holes, some of which were much 
enlarged after the discovery of burials, resulted in 
the finding of seventeen interments, the deepest 
lying 32 inches from the surface, as follows: ex- 
tended on the back, two; bunched burials, fifteen. 
Of the bunched burials four were without 
skulls; one had a single skull; seven were with 
two crania each; one included five skulls; one, ten 
skulls; one, eleven skulls. 
The only object with the dead, other than 
pottery vessels, was a biconical pipe of earthen- 
ware, quadrangular in cross section, of such infe- 
rior material that parts adhered to surrounding 
clay when the pipe was removed. 
A disintegrating pipe of limestone, of the same 
form as the one just described, was found in clay 
that had been thrown out in digging and presum- 
ably had been with an interment. 
Thirty-four vessels, nearly all of coarse ware, of which only two were un- 
broken, lay with the burials, usually near the skulls. All but five bear decoration 
of some kind, though, as a rule, it is unambitious and of inferior execution. One 
symmetrical vessel of excellent ware, globular, with flat base and short neck 
(Fig. 20), bears on the body an incised decoration consisting of four scrolls 
radiating from circles, with triangles filling in the design. While the execution 
of this design is not equal to the highest standard of the lower Mississippi region, 
it is nevertheless well done, and the vessel as a whole is far above average work. 
Precisely the same decoration, though the shape of the vessel is different, is on 
one found by us in a mound at Glass,’ Miss., in which some exquisite examples of 
Fic. 21.— Decoration on base. (Full 
Vol am Aboriginal Sites on Mississippi River," Fig. 8. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., 
fol. XIV. 
