ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 95 
Among the roots of a tree growing from the mound. which were being cut for 
removal, was a pipe of earthenware of interesting form, the bow] of which received 
a blow from an axe, but since has been cemented together. The part of the pipe 
on which the bowl rests is square in section where the stem is intended to enter, 
and tapers to a blunt point at the other end. The decoration consists of notches 
on the four edges of this elongated pyramid ; incised, encircling lines at both ends: 
and on two opposite sides below the bowl, rude circles in low relief on an excised 
field —seven circles on one side and nine on the other (Fig, 92) 
Fic, 92.—Pipe of earthenware. Keller Place. (Full size.) Fic. 93.—Copper-coated ornament of wood. 
Keller Place. (Full size.) 
Near the central part of the base of the mound lay Burial No. 58, consisting 
of fragments of teeth and a small, flat remnant of bone, probably part of a rib. 
This fragment had been preserved by the sheet-copper covering of a hollow wooden 
ornament that lay upon it at such a distance below the teeth as to indicate that its 
position had been on the chest of the deceased (Fig. 93). This ornament was 
made in two parts and hollowed out to contain pebbles (which were present in it) to 
rattle when the object was in motion. The shape of the object when entire is that 
of the canine tooth of a large carnivore, which, doubtless, it was intended to repre- 
sent. There is a hole for suspension at one end. 
In a stone-grave on a bluff of the Big Harpeth river, Tenn., were found by the 
late Mr. Edwin Curtis, while conducting explorations under the direction of Prof. 
F. W. Putnam, two ornaments almost exactly similar to the one in question. 
These ornaments have been figured and minutely described by Professor Putnam,’ 
who believes them to have been ear-ornaments. 
' Reports Peabody Museum, Vol. III, p. 112 et seg. 
