98 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
Of twenty-four burials which surely came under the foregoing class, all but two 
had the heads in an easterly direction—not due east, but easterly. In the two 
exceptions the skulls were directed N. of W. and WNW. 
Little but earthenware was found with the dead. Near the leg-bone of a 
skeleton were two musselshells, and immediately at the skull of the same skeleton 
was another—all broken. Each of these shells had a central, circular perforation 
for the admission of a handle, and doubtless was used as a hoe or scraper. 
At the right shoulder of an extended skeleton were two knives and six small 
arrowpoints, of chert; and a small projectile point of the same material lay near 
the skull of another skeleton. 
A skull belonging to a disturbed skeleton had, in close association, a slender, 
barbed arrowpoint of chert. Chert pebbles and parts of pebbles, seemingly inten- 
tionally placed, were found near bones in several instances. 
Apparently apart from human remains were a number 
of fragments of earthenware which, when cemented together, 
formed the bowl of a pipe with a curious loop attachment 
(Fig. 99). In the base of the bowl are two perforations, each 
of which connects with the passage intended for the stem, in 
place of the single perforation usually present. 
The proportion of vessels placed with the dead in the 
cemetery at Kent was comparatively small, but fourteen 
being found. All these but one were crushed by pressure 
of the soil, or partly plowed away, or shattered by the spades 
Fic. 99.—Pipe of earthenware. Í oo 
Kent. (Full size.) of our diggers. 
Incidentally, it may be said, in reference to breaking of 
vessels in digging, that the better the condition of the bones, the greater is the 
number of vessels recovered intact. This may be easily understood when we 
recall that all bones are carefully removed by hand, and if any part of a well- 
preserved skeleton, except the skull (near which vessels usually are found), is en- 
countered first by the digger, vessels with the skeleton are exposed to but little risk 
In removal. 
Of the fourteen vessels found at Kent, all but one lay near skulls or parts of 
skulls—the exception being а bowl found near the pelvis of an extended skeleton. 
In one instance a bottle and a bowl lay with a skeleton; all other vessels were 
found singly. Several bowls were inverted. 
The earthenware from Kent is tempered with sand, is fairly good in quality, 
and In several instances is black and polished. But one vessel is without decora- 
tion, all others having incised markings, none of which, however, is of especial 
interest. One vessel, badly broken by contact with a plow, had borne a coating of 
red paint, in addition to a decoration consisting of a number of incised, encircling, 
parallel lines. The more noteworthy vessels are described in detail. 
Vessel No. 7, a bowl of black ware, 5.5 inches in maximum diameter, has a 
conventional tail 4.5 inches in length, and about one inch in width, projecting at 
