50 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
Burial No. 93, remnants of a skull and of other bones of a child, had placed near 
it four earthenware vessels; two chert pebbles; the remnants of an ear-plug made 
of shell and wood; and a discoidal of quartz, with a diameter of 2.8 inches, 
Burial No. 95, fragments of the skull of a child, was accompanied by shell 
beads; traces of sheet-brass; a small earthenware bottle. 
Burial No. 105, fragments of bone, had an undecorated tobacco-pipe of ordi- 
nary pattern, the only pipe met with in the cemetery. 
Burial No. 109, fragments of bones, lay with three small cones of sheet-brass, 
two vessels of earthenware, and a discoidal of fine-grained sandstone, 3.4 inches in 
diameter. 
Apart from human remains, but undoubtedly having been with them originally 
were : chert pebbles in several instances; fragments of brass; red pigment (oxide of 
iron); a lancehead of black chert, slightly less than 4 inches in length, with the 
shank missing; а double-pointed weapon of chert, 7.75 inches in length; two dis- 
coidal stones each found with a vessel of earthenware. Опе of these discoidals, of 
quartz, is 2.6 inches in diameter; the other, with a diameter of 2.9 inches, is of 
limonite beautifully coated with a natural deposit of hematite, similar to others we 
have found previously and like the one described by General Thruston.' 
Three hundred and twenty-two vessels of earthenware, nearly all badly broken, 
were found in the cemetery on the Glendora Plantation. Many of these were in 
disintegrating fragments which indicated, nevertheless, the deposit of entire vessels 
by the aborigines. 
As in aboriginal life vessels of inferior ware and of comparatively crude decora- 
tion no doubt predominated, so vessels of this class might be expected to be in the 
majority in deposits made with the dead; and so it proved to be in the Glendora 
cemetery. 
Nevertheless, from this cemetery came some of the most beautiful vessels it 
has been our good fortune to obtain in our years of search. 
A veritable passion to decorate seems to have possessed the pottery makers of 
Glendora, the entire bodies and even the bases of vessels from there sometimes bear- 
ing decoration. This ornamentation, usually incised, though often faint and rather 
coarsely done, is sometimes of great beauty both in design and in execution, though, | 
unfortunately, the constant recurrence of the scroll leads us to attribute a lack of 
originality to the native artist. 
Certain of the vessels from this place, mainly bowls, are of thin and finely 
tempered ware, some brown, some black, often highly polished. There are also 
among the vessels a few specimens of ware coated with red pigment and, in addi- 
tion, covered with incised decoration. 
Shell tempe 
of highest grade. 
Т T€ le from this cemetery seem to have been placed in the neighborhood | 
> head of the dead, as nearly all those found with human remains (many were 
` “ Antiquities of Tennessee,” 1897, p, 272, 
ring, though present at Glendora, is not found in its earthenware 
