NOTES ON HUMAN BONES EXHIBITING CERTAIN PATHOLOGICAL 
CONDITIONS, 
OUACHITA RIVER, 
Myatt's Landing, Ouachita Parish,’ La. The left tibia; syphilitic hyperplasia, 
Glendora Plantation, Ouachita Parish, La. Burials Numbers 84 and 118, two 
calvaria showing osteitis deformans. 
Boytt's Field, Union County, Ark. The right tibia showing osteo-periostitis, 
possibly syphilitic. 
Bell Gin Landing, Union County, Ark. The bones of the left forearm, show- 
ing simple fracture with good repair. 
Borur River. 
Jones’ Landing, Franklin Parish, La. The femur, tibia, fibula, and ulna, 
showing osteitis deformans. 
Dailey Landing, Franklin Parish, La. A calvarium showing syphilitic erosions. 
Bayou BARTHOLOMEW. 
Ward Place, Morehouse Parish, La. Burial No. 12, the right femur and tibia 
showing osteo-arthritis; and from Burial No. 18, a woman, the bones of the pelvis 
and thighs, showing congenital dislocation of femurs. 
Bray's Landing, Morehouse Parish, La. A right tibia, showing hyperplastic 
osteo-periostitis, possibly syphilitic. 
The pottery of the Ouachita valley which, as we have said, forms part of the 
lower Mississippi province, is most favorably represented by vessels from sites near 
the union of Bayou Bartholomew with the Ouachita river, where a center of culture 
seems to have existed, and where incised decoration was sometimes executed by a 
master hand. 
In no other region, however, in which we have worked, have we obtained so 
great a proportion of pottery of inferior ware, of commonplace form, and of rude and 
carelessly executed decoration, and having such sameness of design as we found in 
the lower Mississippi region,’ although we met with there, in exceptional instances, 
* The State of Louisiana uses the term parish to designate that division of the commonwealth 
which i in Мал other State іп the Union is known аз а county. . M. 
So far as inferior work and rude decoration are conceried. We exclude from this statement 
that di of pottery from Florida known as ceremonial, which was made expressly for interment with 
the dead, and, as might be expected, is of the commonest kind of ware, and has the crudest forms of 
decoration. This pottery is very abundant in Florida. 
