96 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
Vessels Nos. 30, 49, and 43. Three bowls, in diameter, respectively, 7.5 
inches, 5.6 inches, 4.7 inches. Each bowl, inside and out, is coated with red pig- 
ment, and each has a number of incised, parallel, encircling lines below the rim— 
these lines, in the case of Vessel No. 49, the one of medium size, being interrupted 
on two opposite sides by series of five incised, festooned lines extending below rudi- 
mentary handles, on the top of each of which are two straight, impressed markings, 
each about .5 inch in length. 
Vessel No. 25. A bottleof yellow ware (Plate VI), dark in places through 
uneven firing, with a coating of red pigment, in part worn away. The vessel has 
a globular body, and a neck distinguished by an unusual feature on long-necked 
bottles such as this one is, namely, an endeavor to represent an animal head at the 
opening. This head, a very crude endeavor, has ears, mouth, and nostrils; the 
eyes are wanting. The decoration of the body, incised in an irregular way, con- 
sists of hour-glass-shaped figures made up of series of lines, four times shown. 
Across the road from Mound A and in full view from it, is a circular elevation 
(Mound C) about 40 feet in diameter and from 2 to 3 feet in height, which was 
practically dug down by us. 
Five burials were encountered, all badly decayed, some represented only by 
fragments of the skull. Three were of children; one, of a child or of an adolescent; 
one of an adolescent whose wisdom teeth had not yet erupted. 
The form of burial where the skeleton was sufficiently complete to indicate it, 
was at full length on the back. 
A neatly-made arrowhead of chert lay apart from burials in this mound, and 
a pot with rude ornamentation was near the skull of a child, 
In woods, about 65 yards NNW. from Mound A is a circular dwelling-site 
(Mound D) about 2 feet high and 62 feet in diameter. 
Eleven trial-holes failed to come 
upon human remains but resulted in the 
finding of a pipe of soft claystone, lying 
alone (Fig. 98), and some bones kindly 
identified by Prof. F. A. Lucas as having 
belonged to an Indian dog; and a bone 
of a turtle, apparently a moderate-sized 
snapping turtle. 
Various series of trial-holes were put 
down in the level ground and in small 
Ете. 98.—Pipe of claystone. Keller Place. (Full size.) circular elevations in the woods, in an en- 
deavor to discover a cemetery, but with 
slight success. 
U In one place human remains were four times encountered, but considerable 
digging In their vicinity was without return. With one of these burials was а small 
arrowpoint of black chert. 
