22 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
few fragments of human bones lay on the surface. Careful investigation of this 
site yielded part of one badly decayed human skeleton, and а skeleton kindly 
identified by Prof. F. A. Lucas as having belonged to an Indian dog. 
Another rise in the ground (B), 63 feet in diameter, was somewhat higher than 
the one just described. Scattered over its surface in profusion were potsherds and 
fragments of human bones. 
Human remains were encountered by us in nineteen places in this site, but 
their condition was unsatisfactory, owing to the state of decay in which most of 
them were, and to the great amount of disturbance, aboriginal and recent, to which 
they had been subjected. Many burials were just below the surface, and the deepest 
was but 30 inches down. Several skulls and some other bones were in a condition 
to save, however. 
One burial was a skeleton lying flexed on the left side; five were at full length 
on the back, two being without skulls; thirteen burials had been disturbed. 
No artifacts were present with the dead with the exception of one arrowhead 
of chert, which lay beneath a femur. 
A few arrowheads and lanceheads, of chert, and a drill of the same material 
lay apart from human remains, as did a piercing implement of bone having the 
articular part of the bone remaining. 
The third elevation (C) evidently had not been used for burial purposes, as a 
thorough search was unsuccessful. 
MOUND NEAR POPLAR GROVE LANDING, CALDWELL PARISH, La. 
About one mile east from Poplar Grove Landing, in sight from the road, on 
property belonging to Mr. Frantz E. Stewart, who lives near the landing, is a mound 
in the form of a truncated cone, 12 feet in height and 69 feet across the base. As 
this mound has been used for burial purposes in recent times, a careful investiga- 
tion was not attempted. 
Москов NEAR HOGAN LANDING AND NEAR WADE LANDING, 
eo: CALDWELL PARISH, La. 
: Mounds at Hogan Landing and at Wade Landing, being in use as cemeteries - 
at the present time, were not available for investigation. 
MOUND NEAR Вилу LANDING, CALDWELL PARISH, LA. 
| On the river bank at Billy Landing, оп property of Mr. Philip Barnes, isa 
small part of a mound, the other part of which, we were informed, had recently 
fallen into the river. Embedded іп the exposed section of the mound there still 
алс at the time of our visit fragments of a medium sized vessel of earthen- 
x Considerable digging in an adjoining field, on the surface of which were a few 
agments of pottery and of chert, was without reward. 
