108 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
Near another skull was half of a pot bearing a coarse, lined decoration. 
The yield from the portion of this cemetery investigated by us was not of a 
nature to encourage us to negotiate with an aged colored man, into whose garden 
the remainder of the cemetery extended, for the right to continue the search. 
On a plantation adjoining that of Mr. Swayze we failed to find bones on the 
surface, or soil of a color to encourage us to dig, though scattered amid much chert 
debris were a small, pointed implement of bone, and a piercing implement 2.75 
inches in length, made by grinding to a point at its narrower end a chert pebble so 
shaped as admirably to adapt it to the purpose. 
A number of arrowheads of chert were found on this plantation, as well as on 
the one belonging to Mr. Swayze. 
MOUNDS NEAR DAILEY LANDING, FRANKLIN PARISH, La. 
About 300 yards W. by Š. from Dailey Landing, in a cultivated field forming 
part of the plantation of Mr. M. P. Dailey, who lives on it, is a mound (A) 14 feet 
high, with an irregularly circular base 146 feet in diameter. The diameter of the 
summit-plateau is 47 feet. The upper part of this mound, to a depth of from 2 to 
2.5 feet, is of rather loose material and is much darker in shade than the solid and 
tenacious clay beneath it. 
Eight trial-holes were put down in the superficial part of the mound, some of 
which, coming upon human remains, subsequently were enlarged. Digging was 
not carried farther, as the mounds on Mr. Dailey’s place are his sole reliance in 
flood-time as a place of refuge for stock, hence digging and a consequent loosening 
of soil and destruction of roots which hold it in place, meant impairment to the 
mound; moreover the yield of artifacts was not of an alluring character. 
One skeleton extended on the back and six bunched burials were encountered 
at a maximum depth of 2.5 feet. With one of the bunched burials were three 
skulls; with another, were two. 
All bones were badly decayed. 
With burials were six earthenware vessels near crania; in one instance a 
pair, the rest occurring singly. These vessels, all of which were broken, show no 
shell-tempering and are undecorated, with a single exception which bears a simple 
design of straight lines, roughly made. The vessels present no novelty in form. 
About 250 yards NNE. from Mound А is а somewhat smaller mound (В), 
which has suffered considerably through wash of water. Its summit-plateau was 
of hard, undisturbed clay, light in color. CUu | 
This mound yielded nothing to our search, nor was it expected that it would 
do 80. | 
| About 80 yards SSE. from Mound А is another mound, much spread through 
cultivation, which was planted in cotton at the time of our visit. The soil is rich 
