ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 57 
Burial No. 13, a bunched burial including sixteen skulls, began 40 inches 
from the surface and continued on a downward slope, ending one foot deeper. 
The space occupied by this burial was about 8 feet by 5 feet, its thickness varying 
between one inch where long-bones only were present, to about 6 inches where 
crania were found. 
Burial No. 15, a bunch, 3.5 feet down, with which were thirteen skulls. 
With this burial was a deposit consisting of nine small, barbed arrowheads of 
flint, some imperfect through former breakage, as were a large proportion of the 
projectile points from this mound. These particular arrowheads were not in a 
pile, as such deposits sometimes are, but were somewhat spread and called for 
careful search in the moist soil in which they lay singly. 
Burial No. 17, a bunch with seven skulls, 5 feet deep, had twenty-six small 
arrowheads spread over a considerable area. 
Burial No. 20, to which reference has been made, included twenty skulls 
and lay in a grave with rounded corners, 5 feet 1 inch by 5 feet 6 inches in area, 
the depth, as stated, being 2 feet 3 inches below the original sur- 
face of the mound and 6.5 feet below the present one. The bones 
in this grave were badly crushed, some retaining their shape in 
part, others being almost in powder. Even the skulls were 
flattened. 
With this burial, mingled with the remnants of bones and 
distributed over the base of the grave-pit, were fifty-two small, 
flint arrowpoints, most of them serrated. 
Three bunched burials, each with a single skull, had, respec- 
tively, an earthenware vessel, two undecorated, one without 
adornment except for series of three notches extending around 
the margin of the opening. These burials, with which had been 
placed the only earthenware vessels found by us in the mound, 
lay near together and presumably the same impulse prompted 
the placing of all three vessels. 
Beyond the artifacts described, nothing was found by us na ce 
with the burials, an unsatisfactory return, taking into considera- = a 
tion the nature of the site, which indicates occupancy by a se- (Full size.) 
dentary population for a considerable period. 
In the field near the mounds was little evidence of former aboriginal occu- 
pancy, though a few arrowheads and knives were gathered from the surface, 
including an interesting knife of flint, about 2.9 inches in length, showing a curve 
on the end of the shank, the natural curve of the pebble from which the knife 
was made (Fig. 25). 
We found this place to be the farthest north on Bayou Macon (so far as 
our search extended) where arrowheads, as a rule, are small and barbed. Farther 
up the bayou projectile points are much larger, many having shoulders rather 
than barbs. 
