152 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
when denuded of flesh, as bones were often out of place and small bones, in some 
instances, were missing. 
Apart from burials were found several knives and arrowheads, of chert and a 
neatly-made piercing implement of bone, round in cross section, about 4 inches in 
length. 
We shall now describe in detail all objects found with burials at this place. 
Burial No. 1—a small earthenware vessel near the skull. 
Burial No. 2—a vessel, also small, at the right wrist. 
Burial No. 3—a small pot, with holes for suspension, at the head; five tines from 
deer-antler, about one foot from the head, one having a groove around the proximal 
end, another smoothed exteriorly and hollowed so as to serve as an arrowpoint.' 
Burial No. 4—an earthenware vessel at the head; near the shoulder a small, 
ellipsoidal mass of hematite, highly polished, but without groove or perforation ; 
the carapace of a tortoise. 
Burial No. 5—two vessels at the left shoulder, one of which had charcoal 
beneath it; at the right elbow, a musselshell somewhat broken, with a circular 
perforation for the insertion of a handle. 
Burial No. 6—two vessels of earthenware near the skull, one a bowl inverted 
and covering part of the opening of the other vessel, a pot. 
Burial No. 7—a small vessel near the head; a tine of deer-antler, worked at 
both ends; two musselshells (Lampszlzs anodontordes) near the shoulder and thorax, 
having each a perforation for suspension near the hinge. 
Burial No. 9—a small pot above the right knee. 
Burial No. 10—a small pot at the head; two piercing implements of bone at the 
outer side of the right humerus; a small musselshell (Quadrula heros dombeyana) 
over the left elbow, the shell having a circular perforation for use as a hoe. 
Burial No. 11, a child—a pot near the skull. 
Burial No. 12—an earthenware vessel near the left shoulder. 
Burial No. 18—а pot near the skull; the carapace of a tortoise at the right 
shoulder; beneath the right humerus, a musselshell hoe. 
Burial No. 14—an earthenware vessel at the side of the left knee; at the shin, | 
a rude disk of sedimentary rock, 2.25 inches in diameter. 
Burial No. 15—three vessels together, about one foot from the skull. 
Burial No. 16—at the left shoulder and head, a heterogeneous collection as 
follows: one barbed arrowpoint of chert, with the point missing; one chert knife; 
twelve pebbles and parts of pebbles of chert; one implement of bone with rounded 
point; eight tines of deer-antler, some cut squarely across at the proximal end; a 
number of bones belonging to male raccoons, unworked with the exception of three, 
which have the proximal ends cut off and the other ends carefully worked to sharp 
points. An implement similar to those in question, except that.the proximal end 
remains on the bone, was lately figured by Mr. Robert F. Gilder,? as having been 
found in eastern Nebraska. Mr. Gilder describes the implement as a fish-hook. 
* As to antler-points shot into human beings see Anthropological Papers, American Museum of 
Natural History, Vol. ПІ. “Тһе Lenapé Indians of Staten Island”; by Alanson Skinner, p. 15, РІ. ПІ. 
" American Anthropologist,” Jan.-March, 1909, plate I-2-fig. a. 
