54 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
been extended on the back, but from which the pelvis and two-thirds of the thighs 
were wanting. Careful search was made above and below this skeleton for 
indications of a grave, which, passing through the skeleton in question, could 
have removed the missing bones, but no such grave was found. 
There were also three bunched burials, two with three skulls each and one 
with six. 
No pottery was present with the burials, and the only objects found with 
them were two small celts of metamorphic rock and of quartzite, respectively, and 
a mass of sandstone, triangular in plane, smoothed to slight concavity on four 
of its five sides, possibly by use asa hone. Its length is about 3 inches; its thick- 
ness, 1.25 inch; its maximum width, 2.25 inches. 
Fia. 24.— Vessel of earthenware. Canebrake mounds. (Height 3.9 inches.) 
It is interesting to note two mounds in this group, each containing burials 
with which, in one instance, were numerous vessels, and in the other, none. 
MOUNDS ON THE Mort PLACE, FRANKLIN PARISH. 
On the Mott Place, so called from the name of a former owner (also known 
as the Walnut Bluff Place), is a fine group of mounds, all but one of which are on 
the property of Mr. A. D. Simmons, residing on the place. The group, nine in 
number, some in, some on the border of, a cultivated field, form an irregular 
ellipse of which the two principal mounds constitute the western side, two form 
the apices of the figure, and the rest the eastern side. There are also several 
rises and humps in the field and in the line of the ellipse. 
