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ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 81 
a considerable proportion of the vessels bear decoration. This decoration in nearly 
every сазе is rude. The use of pigment (red) in the decoration of pottery was very 
limited. No polychrome bination was found, nor was such expected south of 
Arkansas river. 
In form the vessels are ordinary. The water-bottle was met with but 
once. The ware, while soft and coarse, is not thick, and the vessels are fairly 
symmetrical as a rule. In a word, this pottery belongs to the class found in the 
lower Mississippi region, but is of an inferior grade in that class. 
SITES INVESTIGATED. 
On Goulett Island, Ashley County. 
Near Godfrey’s Landing, Bradley County. 
Near Moore’s Mill, Bradley County. 
At Hampton Landing, Bradley County. 
Near Lowrie Landing, Bradley County. 
Near Wherry Landing, Bradley County. 
Near Wire Fence Landing, Bradley County. 
Near Brooks Landing, Bradley County. 
Near Sutton Ferry, Bradley County. 
SITE ON GOULETT ISLAND, ASHLEY COUNTY. 
On Goulett Island is a site with a number of small mounds of irregular 
outline, some in sight from the landing and all near one another, on property 
under the management of Mr. W. J. Wright, who resides about three miles farther 
up the river. 
One of these mounds, largely of clay, is 2 feet in height and 50 feet across its 
irregularly circular base. Of six trial-holes three came to undisturbed, yellow 
clay at a depth indicated by the height of the mound as determined by us from 
the outside. 
Three holes, however, extended through disturbed soil, evidently graves, 
to a greater depth, the deepest being 4 feet 4 inches. 
ne of these trial-holes, about centrally placed in the mound, came upon a 
fragment of human skull at a depth of 2.5 feet, and in another of the holes was 
a small fragment of pottery, of excellent ware, bearing deep and evenly-cut, 
lined decoration. An arrow head or a knife, of flint, and a small deposit of 
pebbles also came from the mound. 
Another mound of the group, also circular, having a greater admixture of 
sand than was present in the preceding mound, is somewhat less than 2 feet in 
height and 40 feet in diameter. Undisturbed, yellow sand was reached at a 
depth about equal to the height of the mound, without the discovery of bone or 
of artifact. - 
Near these two mounds is a level space covered with rich, black loam to a 
depth of from 12 to 18 inches, containing midden débris here and there. No 
human bones were found in it. 
