ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 87 
Q. metanever, Q. tuberculata, Q. reflexa, Unio gibbosus, U. crassidens, Obovaria 
castanea. 
MOUND NEAR WHERRY LANDING, BRADLEY COUNTY. 
In sight from Wherry Landing, in a cultivated field forming part of the plan- 
tation of Mr. J. M. Ferrell, of Johnsville, Ark., is a mound of irregular outline, 
probably averaging about 60 feet in diameter, though its original extent is dif- 
ficult to determine, as the mound had been under cultivation and, it is said, had 
been surrounded by water in flood-times. An old colored man, owning an ad- 
joining field, informed us that the mound had not been cultivated since 1877, 
when plowing over it was abandoned owing to the number of human bones 
brought to the surface. The mound, about 3 feet in height, is covered with a 
growth of pine trees, which somewhat interfered with complete investigation. 
This mound, of sand with a slight admixture of clay, was fairly riddled with 
trial-holes by us, nearly all of which, except those in the outer parts, after reaching 
burials, were considerably extended. 
No burial was found at a depth greater than 14 inches from its upper surface, 
though discolored sand in places in the mound went to a depth of 2 feet 8 inches 
before yellow, underlying sand was reached. 
There had been considerable aboriginal disturbance in the mound owing to 
burials cutting through others. When but few scattered bones were encountered, 
presumably the result of such disturbance, they were not included in our list of 
burials. 
An interesting feature in this mound was the placing by the aborigines of 
skeletons in a way that the heads were directed toward the south, so far as we 
could determine, the heads of all undisturbed burials being thus arranged. 
We shall now detail each burial, the skeletons, when not otherwise described, 
having been of adults, at full length on the back. No bones were in a condition 
to save. : 
Burial No. 1, a disturbance probably caused by the placing of Burial No. 2. 
This burial (No. 1) had sustained in life a fracture of the thigh, which had united 
as shown in Fig. 36. This bone was presented by us to the United States Army 
Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. | 
Burial No. 2, heading SSE., had at the right side of the skull an undecorated 
pot with flaring rim. 
Burial No. 3, with the skull direeted SSE., had over the lower part of the 
left leg an undecorated vessel, somewhat broken, containing a mussel-shell. 
Burial No. 4, the head pointing SSE., had at the right forearm what re- 
mained of parts of eight tools made from scapule of deer. These tools, all of 
the lower parts of which were missing through decay, each had a perforation 
made in the following way: the head of the scapula had been removed, a hole 
had been made down the neck of the scapula to communicate with another hole 
pierced through one side of the neck. With these fragmentary tools were two 
parts of the lower jaw of deer. 
