72 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
us from the colored man from whom the arrowheads were acquired), unless 
the bead was an importation. "This bead, 2.6 inches in length, with a diameter 
of .36 inch, has an evenly placed perforation of only :14 to .16 inch diameter. 
This large bead of jasper is, however, not the record one as to size. In the 
Louisiana State Museum, at New Orleans, we noticed a jasper bead the measure- 
ments of which kindly have been furnished us by Mr. Robert Glenk, B.S., Ph.C., 
Curator of the Museum: length, 3.3 inches; diameter, .44 inch; diameter of 
opening, .125 inch. The bead, Mr. Glenk informs us, came from St. Landry 
Parish, La. 
Among the aboriginal dwellers on the Poverty Point site, what are known as 
'plummets"" of hematite were greatly in vogue. Persons now living on the 
site tell of quantities of these objects, which they call *plumb-bobs," that have 
been found in the course of cultivation of the land, and the colored man from 
whom the arrowheads and the bead were obtained spoke 
of profits derived by him from the sale of these ‘“ plumb- 
bobs" to visitors, and displayed a number which, through 
partial breakage, he had not been able to dispose of. 
There were found by us eleven hematite “plummets” 
(Fig. 30), ten on the surface and one in the course of the 
digging. They varied in length between 3.5 inches and .8 
inch, some with perforations, some with grooves for suspen- 
sion, one having a semiperforation. Some are rude, with- 
out regularity of outline, hardly more than masses of ma- 
terial on which but little work has been done. Over the 
surface were many fragments belonging to “plummets. " 
Fia. 31.—Figurine of Several small balls of hematite were picked up, all of 
clay. Poverty Point : : 
Plasitation: (PUES somewhat irregular outline. 
From the surface also came an interesting little figurine 
of earthenware, representing a female (Fig. 31). 
The objects of baked clay which were discovered in such numbers at this 
place (sixty-seven? entire ones being obtained), and which resemble most of 
those we found this season in and sometimes on the surface of various sites in 
Louisiana, south of Poverty Point, are of a class hitherto undescribed, so far as 
we ean learn. А selection from those found at Poverty Point, embracing all the 
various forms obtained there, is shown in Plate II. 
All these objeets from Poverty Point lay on the surface with a few excep- 
! As to “plummets” and objects of hematite, of aboriginal make, in general, see: W. К. 
Moorehead, “ Hematite Implements is the United States, ” Bulletin VI, Department of Archzol- 
ogy, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas 
2 [n addition to a selection fr om ikes, which has been placed on exhibition at the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Sarma ee кү were sent to the following: United States National 
Museum, W oe . C.; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; Yale University Museum, 
New Hav en, Conn.; American Мада of Natural History, New York C ity; Field Museum of 
Natural History, Chicago, Ш.; Department of Archeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; 
Museum of Archeology and Ethnography, Cambridge, Engla nd. 
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