ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 19 
by the number of crania, but from the condition of the bones which remained it is 
probable that many others had disappeared through decay. 
Such artifacts as were found with the burials are not of a character to inspire 
enthusiasm in the artistic ability of those who occupied so important a center as 
this one must have been. 
With one burial was a small arrowhead of chert; a polished “celt” 3 inches 
in length, which was given to Mr. Oliphant, the owner of the mounds; and several 
large fragments of an earthenware pipe bearing rude incised decoration. 
Another burial had with it a single arrowhead of chert. 
With human remains was a pipe of earthenware (having a small part missing 
from the rim) also with rude, incised decoration (Fig. 2). 
Fic. 2.—Pipe of earthenware. Pritchard Landing. (Full size.) 
Three vessels of medium size were found associated in an interesting way. 
Immediately over a skull was a bowl of such size as to permit it exactly to cover 
the cranium. On one side of this inverted bowl, and in contact with it, was a 
vessel of medium size, while on the other side was another vessel of similar dimen- 
sions, one part of the rim of which dipped under the inverted bowl. 
With a water-bottle, found in fragments, was a bit of quartz crystal. These 
objects were not in the immediate neighborhood of human bones, but undoubtedly 
they had been associated with some that had disappeared through decay or had 
suffered disturbance. 
Fifteen earthenware vessels came from this cemetery, nearly all being found 
singly, in pairs, or three together, in the neighborhood of skulls. One, however, lay 
at the hip of what seemed to have been an extended skeleton which had another 
