112 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
CEMETERY NEAR SYCAMORE LANDING, MOREHOUSE PARISH, ГА. 
At Sycamore Landing is the plantation of Mrs. Clara Barber, whose place of 
residence is Pine Bluff, Ark. This plantation, under the management of Mr. 
Clarence Secrease, of Ouachita City, La., adjoins that on which is the mound to 
which we have referred, and presumably had the cemetery belonging to that mound. 
In a cultivated field in the Barber plantation, about 500 yards in а БЕ. direc- 
tion from Sycamore Landing, and in sight from the mound, was an imperfectly 
defined rise above the general level, where the soil was darker than that which 
surrounded it. On the surface of this elevation were dwelling-site debris and a 
small fragment of a human skull. 
Trial-holes put down at various points in this ground came upon faint traces of 
bones and several vessels of earthenware. 
Finally, as the result of considerable digging, an area 39 feet by 46 feet was 
determined, in which, seemingly, the burials had been made. This area was dug 
throughout by us at depths varying between 2 feet and more than 4 feet, according 
to the distance to which the graves extended. 
Traces of human remains were met with in thirty-eight instances, but it was 
evident from the number of artifacts that lay apart from bones, that many burials 
had entirely disappeared. Rarely was a fragment of bone met with that did not 
crumble at the touch. Skulls were mere outlines in the soil, and all that remained 
of some burials were decaying crowns of teeth. 
Burial No. 20, seemingly a bunched burial, in a pit, lay 4 feet 9 inches down, 
and consisted of traces of three skulls and of remains of long-bones which had been 
piled lengthwise one upon another. 
Burial No. 4, traces of a skull, 3 feet from the surface, had with it three earthen- 
ware vessels and a large pipe of limestone or of phosphate rock (reacting to acid), 
fairly crumbling into bits, evidently a pipe of the effigy class; a small arrowhead 
of chert; and a small “сей” of a hard stone, which, in common with other “celts ” 
found here, we have not cared to mutilate for a microscopic slide for exact deter- 
mination, and as to which we do not wish to follow the usual custom and hazard a 
guess. 
Burial No. 8, represented by remains of a skull, which probably belonged to 
some fragments of decaying bone a short distance from it, lay 22 inches from the 
surface. With the bones were a pipe of earthenware, a small “celt,” and fifty-six 
arrowpoints of chert, all barbed and acutely pointed. Most of these arrowheads 
lay in a small heap, a few being scattered nearby. With the arrowheads were 
three pebbles; one pebble-hammer; and thirteen flakes of chert. 
On one side of the skull belonging to this burial was a discoidal of limestone, 
4 inches in diameter, with a few badly decayed shell beads upon it. 
On the opposite side of the cranium was a pipe of limestone or of phosphate 
rock, which strikingly represents the head of an eagle, although, unfortunately, the 
distal, curved end of the beak has crumbled away (Figs. 104, 105). Height, 3.75 
inches; maximum width, 3.1 inches; length, 4.5 inches. 
