ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 23 
MOUND AND SITE NEAR Сгт-Оғғ LANDING, OUACHITA Parisa, LA. 
At Cut-Off Landing, on property of Mr. Gilbert Stewart (who lives at Gilbert 
Stewart Landing, about five miles above, by water), on high ground above the land- 
ing and about 200 yards NNW. from it, is a mound about 5.5 feet high, with a 
basal diameter of 52 feet. This mound, which is of clayey sand, previous to our 
coming had been trenched in to the center on the southern side and the immediate 
middle portion had been dug out. 
Eleven trial-holes sunk into the mound by us were without result. 
A few yards easterly from this mound is an aboriginal dwelling-site, fairly 
littered with debris left by its former occupants. This site, under cultivation in 
recent times, but fallow at the time of our visit, had rich black soil, due to pro- 
tracted occupancy. At one place on the surface lay part of a skull and other human 
bones. 
This place, unfortunately, like so many investigated by us in this region, 
proved to have been too long under cultivation to have preserved the artifacts and 
aboriginal burials which undoubtedly at one time it had held, Trial-holes sunk іп 
every portion of the field showed the surface soil left by aboriginal 
occupancy to have been so washed by rain after cultivation that but 
little of it was left above the undisturbed clay. 
There were gathered from the surface by us: a drill of chert; 
several knives and small arrowheads of the same material; and an 
interesting arrowhead or knife, also of chert, shown in Fig. 5. 
Prof. W. K. Moorehead informs us that the type last mentioned 
is rare, a few specimens having been found in Tennessee, Arkansas, 
and Louisiana, and that similar forms in obsidian from California and 
from Oregon are in his possession. f knife, 
An almost exactly similar implement was found by us on the sur- He tanding 
face of a dwelling-site at Ragland Landing, а few miles below where (һе “Full 92) 
first implement was found. The second specimen, however, has a rounded edge as 
if it had served as a knife. 
Also we were shown on a site on Little river, by a man who was camping 
there, a handsome arrowhead or knife of the type in question, of red chert, and much 
larger than the specimen found by us. 
MOUNDS OPPOSITE LoGTowN LANDING, OUACHITA PARISH, La. 
Immediately across the river from Logtown Landing is a cultivated field in 
which are traces of several small mounds and part of a mound with flat top, prob- 
ably originally 7 or 8 feet in height, which has been in part under cultivation and 
has been largely washed away by rain. 
In the surrounding field are remains of dwelling-sites, the dark soil оҒ which 
has been plowed and washed away until undisturbed clay is apparent in places. 
As it became evident that time would be spent in negotiations with the owner 
of this place for even the small amount of investigation we had planned to devote 
to it, we passed on to more inviting fields of research. 
