84 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
Another exceptional feature is the fact that in one area excavated by us, in 
which sixteen burials were found, no object of any kind was present with.the dead, 
though earthenware vessels lay with burials in another area not far distant. 
Plentiful throughout the sand were pebbles of sizes suitable for use as hammer- 
stones and pebble-hammers, though none had been so used, as far as appearance 
indicated. 
Eight pebbles, averaging about an inch in diameter, were found in the body 
of a water-bottle without a neck, which lay with a burial. 
One small arrowhead of quartz was near a skeleton, and eight others of chert, 
all barbed and beautifully wrought, the smallest but .8 of an inch in length, were 
found scattered in the sand, apart from human remains. There was found also 
the scale of an alligator-gar. Scales of this fish, according to Du Pratz, were used 
as arrowpoints in the Mississippi region. 
Two tubular beads of shell, each about .5 of an inch in length, lay at the neck 
of a skeleton. 
A “celt” about 3 inches in length, of a rather soft stone, found apart from 
human remains, was given by us to Mr. Harry, the owner of the cemetery. 
Lying beside an earthenware vessel which was with a burial (as were all the 
vessels found by us in this cemetery), closely associated, were: a pebble; a frag- 
ment of red oxide of iron; part of a tine of deer-antler about 1.5 inch in length, 
cut squarely across at the proximal end. 
Singly, apart from human bones, were: a disk of earthenware about 2 inches 
in diameter, not cut from a fragment of a vessel, but coarsely made by modeling 
and firing; part of an undecorated tobacco-pipe of earthenware; a fragment of an 
earthenware vessel, roughly rounded and perforated at the center, the hole being 
made in an aboriginal way, namely, countersunk on both sides; two well-made, 
perforating implements of bone, each having the articular part remaining; a bone 
of a raccoon; the incisor of a beaver, an animal still found in this part of Arkansas; 
bones kindly identified by Prof. F. A. Lucas as belonging to the Indian dog, and 
to a large specimen of the Virginia deer; and numerous fragments of carapaces prob- 
ably belonging to the tortoise. 
U Twenty-four vessels of earthenware lay with the burials, singly, sometimes a 
pair, and in one instance three with a single burial. 
These vessels were invariably near the head, usually alongside the skull and 
never farther from it than the shoulder or upper arm. 
Several bowls were inverted and one lay on its side. Over one vessel was 
turned a fragment consisting of the base of a larger vessel. In some of the vessels 
were musselshells which doubtless had been used as spoons. 
With one or two exceptions, the earthenware from Boytt's Field is shell- 
tempered, and some of | it is of excellent quality. Although in some cases red pig- 
TU d a um of incised decoration, no coating of color is present on 
кыш place, though a small fragment of pottery picked up in the field 
pigment of excellent quality on each side. In form, the pot, the 
