66 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
destruction would have been a matter of no importance. Several humps and 
rises also were dug into. 
Mound C alone yielded burials to our investigation. In this mound nine 
trial-holes, put down from the summit-plateau, came upon human remains in 
seven instances. About 2 feet below the surface was a thin, dark layer of soil, 
which seemed to indicate a period of occupancy and a subsequent increase in 
the height of the mound. The bones found by us had been buried from the sur- 
face, none of the graves having eut through the layer in question in aboriginal 
times. One of the seven burials noted had been greatly scattered by an inter- 
ment of comparatively recent date. With some of the scattered bones was a 
tubular bead of red jasper, .8 inch in length. 
Two other burials were very fragmentary, one consisting of part of a single 
bone, perhaps a remnant of another disturbance. With this was what had been 
an effigy-pipe of coarse limestone or of phosphate rock, greatly disintegrated. 
A blow from a shovel completed the wreck. The remaining four burials had 
been extended on the back. These bones were so badly decayed that the form 
of burial was merely indicated by remnants. 
With one of these burials were two bowls, both badly broken, one decorated 
with encircling, incised lines, the other with punctate markings. 
The level ground at this place showed few signs of former aboriginal oc- 
cupancy, Judged by débris on the surface. Several arrowpoints of flint were 
found, including one small and serrated. Our agent informed us that when 
visiting this place the preceding summer, he picked up a “plummet” of hematite, 
and two others were acquired by us from a colored woman living on the place. 
SITES ON Poverty POINT, AND ON THE MOTLEY PLACE, WEST CARROLL PARISH. 
Near the town of Floyd are two adjacent properties bordering the water, 
but well above reach of the highest flood, in all more than two thousand acres, 
farm-land and forest, respectively known as Poverty Point and the Motley 
Place, Poverty Point being the first reached by one ascending Bayou Macon. 
These places, of great interest from an archeological point of view, were most 
courteously placed at the disposal of the Academy for investigation by Mrs. M. J. 
Redmond, of Floyd, La., whose property they are. To Mrs. Redmond and to 
Mr. M. C. Redmond, son of Mrs. Redmond, manager of these properties, the 
Academy wishes to express its sincere thanks. Mr. Redmond, a college graduate, 
and head of the School Board of West Carroll Parish, took a keen interest in the 
investigation and aided it in every way. 
In the Smithsonian Report for 1872, Prof. Samuel H. Lockett, of the 
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., writes: 
“While prosecuting my topographical survey of Louisiana this summer, 
I visited, near Jackson's Ferry, 4 miles south of Floyd, on Bayou Macon, some 
very remarkable Indian mounds. Six of these are within a mile of Mrs. Jackson’s. 
! Pages 429, 430. 
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