20 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
vessel near the skull. Several vessels lay apart from bones, but these, no doubt, 
originally had been associated with them. ms 
With one exception all vessels were broken when found, some being little more 
than crumbling fragments. | | | 
The ware, which is not shell-tempered, is soft and probably insufficiently fired. 
Decoration, when present, shows little originality, being represented by rude com- 
binations of lines or the ever-recurring scroll. We show one vessel from this place. 
Vessel No. 16. А cup of somewhat 
unusual form, having a flat base and a 
commonplace line and punctate decora- 
tion (Fig. 3). 
Though considerable prospecting was 
done by us in the other mounds and in 
the level ground at Pritchard Landing, no 
human bones were found and no artifacts, 
with the exception of several arrowpoints 
of chert. 
At this place no history is preserved 
of the finding of human remains through 
years of cultivation or in the digging of 
numerous post-holes for fences. 
| | A son of Mr. Oliphant described the 
in пика ay Ж discovery by himself, while hoeing, of а 
frog of stone, of life-like appearance, hav- 
ing in its back a circular hole of considerable size, doubtless a pipe. 
Scattered over the level ground in places are numerous fragments of pottery and 
of stone, evidences of aboriginal occupancy, and we are unable to account for our 
inability to find aboriginal cemeteries at this place, unless it is that all trace of them 
disappeared through long cultivation of the ground, at a period anterior to our 
visit. 
Москов ON THE KING PLACE, CATAHOULA PARISH, La. 
At the junction of Rawson and Gaster creeks, about 1.5 mile from Pritchard 
Landing, are a number of low mounds on the property of Mr. G. F. King, who 
resides on the place, which have been plowed over for a considerable time. No 
history of any discovery on this place has been preserved, and our digging had 
negative result. 
Мосхр ат Воотн LANDING, CATAHOULA PARISH, La. 
Оп property belonging to Mr. M. E. Booth, who lives пе 
feet 4 inches іп height and 74 feet across the base. Its sh 
and the material from which it is made is tenacious 
the use of a pick for removal. 
arby, is a mound 12 
ape is a truncated cone, 
alluvial deposit, necessitating 
