574 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
but very complex. May have been associated closely with such rock as the 
other sample. Would be classified as a “graywacke” (which is a species of 
metamorphosed, very impure, grayish green sandstone). 
ABORIGINAL SITES NEAR GOLDEN LAKE, MıssıssIPPI RIVER. SITE AT ÉVADALE, 
MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, ARKANSAS. 
In the village of Evadale, about 2 miles in, following the road from Golden 
Lake Landing, on property of Mr. Peter Notgrass, Mr. M. J. Blackwell, lessee, 
both of Evadale, is a site on which is considerable midden debris. This site, a 
ridge in part covered by dwellings, has been, we were informed, in common with 
other sites near Golden Lake, prodded and dug by Crowfoot, the Indian, for the 
last twenty years. 
After a careful examination of this place, in which four skeletons at length 
were found, all badly prodded and two having the skulls (and presumably ac- 
companying earthenware) removed, we discontinued work, convinced that while 
the reputation of the place lingered, its pottery had departed. Our only dis- 
covery with the remains was an imperfect vessel of commonplace form. 
Several other sites near Evadale, kindly put at our disposal by Mr. Notgrass, 
were not investigated by us, as they had shared the attentions of Crowfoot, and 
doubtless of others, equally with the one visited by us. 
Sire NEAR BASSETT, MississirPPI COUNTY, ARKANSAS. 
On property belonging to Mr. Charles M. Bell, living nearby at Bassett, 
Ark., is an aboriginal dwelling-site about 4 miles inland from Golden Lake Land- 
ing, reported to have been thoroughly searched by wielders of the prodding iron, 
including the indefatigable Crowfoot. 
We were courteously permitted to dig in a spacious enclosure in front of the 
dwelling on the property occupied by Mr. A. 8. Catching, Mr. Bell’s son-in-law, 
which had been refused to Crowfoot, though some digging had been done in it by 
members of Mr. Bell's family. 
Seven hours’ digging with four men yielded six skeletons from this enclosure 
and one from a field behind the house. "These burials consisted of five adults 
extended on the back, and two children, the deepest 3 feet 8 inches down. 
Burial No. 1, a child, having at the left shoulder an undecorated bottle and a 
bowl with rude animal head and conventional tail on opposite sides. 
Burial No. 2, adult. At the right forearm were an undecorated bowl, and a 
bottle having in relief, surrounding the base of the neck, a symbol so well known 
on the pottery of this part of Arkansas and figured by Holmes! and by us in 
various publications. | 
A fine bracket-shaped ear-plug of shell, having a perforation at the end of the 
shank to aid in attaching it, lay in place at each side of the skull. 
Across the lower part of the thorax lay an object of elk antler, about 10 inches 
! William H. Holmes. 20th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., Plate XIII f. 
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