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SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 505 
Nine inches below the pottery was the bottom of a concave fire-place on 
which was charcoal. Тһе surrounding earth showed the effect of fire. Here and 
there in the soil between the base of the fire-place and the large fragment of 
earthenware above it, were fragments of calcined bone, but far too few in number 
to be termed a deposit. It seemed as if the cremation might have taken place 
on the fire-place and the fragments of calcined bones been gathered and 
placed in the pottery receptacle, leaving some of them still scattered in the 
eround. 
Burial No. 2, 3 feet 2 inches deep, was a bunched burial composed of the 
bones of one skeleton. Alongside this burial was an undecorated vessel of 
lenticular shape, possibly a rude attempt at a shell-form. In this vessel were 
some fragments of bones having belonged to a young infant. The vessel, how- 
ever, was far too small to have contained the skeleton of even so young an 
infant as the bones found would indicate, and cannot be considered to have been 
an urn-burial. The remaining bones were not found, and we think it likely 
that the skeleton of the infant, with the exception of such parts as may have 
fallen into the vessel, was eut away when the bunched burial was interred, the 
infant's burial, in this event, of course, having preceded the other. 
In the soil near the surface, apart from human remains, was a large frag- 
ment of a vessel, the remainder of which apparently had been plowed away. This 
vessel, originally a bottle, the body consisting of four lobes, had been coated with 
red pigment. This is the farthest north that we have found earthenware giving 
evidence of such excellence of design and coloring. 
MOUNDS on Річноок Кірсе, Mississrppr Country, Mo. 
On Pinhook Ridge, on the western side of Teefo Pond (we spell the name 
as it is locally pronounced), drained by Pinhook Bayou, about three miles in a 
straight line WNW. from the lower end of Wolf Island chute, is a group of 
five mounds. These mounds, forming an irregular circle, are on the property 
of Mr. W. C. Russell, of Charleston, Mo. 
Mound A, the largest of the group, oblong with extensive summit-plateau, 
has been frequently used for protection of stock in times of overflow. Height, 
18.5 feet; length and width of base, respectively, 239 feet and 181 feet. 
Mound B, 25 yards 8. from Mound A, oblong with rounded corners, has 
been under cultivation for a number of years. Height, 6.5 feet; length of base, 
152 feet; width of base, 122 feet. "Trial-holes in the summit-plateau were with- 
out return. 
Mound C, also oblong with summit-plateau, 60 yards SE. from Mound B, 
had been under cultivation. Height, 5 feet; length and width of base, re- 
spectively, 131 feet and 114 feet. A number of trial-holes yielded only a small, 
undecorated bowl of coarse ware, having two holes together on two opposite 
sides for suspension. 
Mound D, 75 yards NE. from Mound C, circular as to the base and probably 
