ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 157 
Many of the points are barbed and аге of considerable elegance of form; indeed, 
over the whole Ouachita valley beautiful projectile points are abundant. Among 
the points from that region are many of the type described by Mr. Fowke' as stem- 
med, chipped flints, with but one barb, and given by him as coming, among other 
places, from southwestern Arkansas and Catahoula Parish, La. 
The Weinstein Plantation was carefully dug over without finding trace of a 
cemetery. 
CEMETERY NEAR SEVEN Pines LANDING, MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. 
At Seven Pines Landing, otherwise known as Miller Landing, two plantations, 
are divided by the highroad, that of Mrs. T. O. Leavel, of Brodnax, La., being the 
northernmore. 
On a part of the plantation, fallow at the time of our visit, was much evidence 
of aboriginal occupancy, and at one place, about one-quarter mile NE. from the 
landing, which seemed slightly higher than the surrounding field, were many small 
fragments of human bone. 
Trial-holes at once came upon burials, and after much digging of additional 
holes and converging trenches, an irregular area, 33 feet by 42 feet in extent, was 
defined as that in which the burials lay. This ground, largely clay in places and 
having admixture of sand in others, was completely dug through by us, following the 
line of undisturbed clay beneath. 
Human remains, just under the surface at times, were encountered at various 
depths, the deepest being found in a pit whose bottom was about 5 feet from the 
surface. 
The bones were in such condition, having at times but slightly more consistency 
than moistened sawdust possesses, that the form of burial was hard to determine. 
Skulls were found singly or in pairs without long-bones in association, in some 
cases, while in other instances bones were unaccompanied by skulls. On four 
occasions burials at length were indicated, and one regular bunched burial was 
encountered, made up of long-bones which had been piled parallel one with another. 
No cranium was present with this burial. 
One of the full-length burials lay at a depth of slightly less than three feet. 
Later, a circular pit for a bunched burial had been put down, and this pit had 
encroached upon part of the earlier grave so that the combination of the two had 
the appearance of a pot-shaped hole with a trough extending from it—the latter 
part being what remained of the grave of the earlier, or full-length burial. 
The bunched burial in this combination consisted of three skulls: one, badly 
crushed, at the bottom of the pit; one just above it, inverted but having the lower 
jaw below it, and partly surrounded by three femurs placed diagonally and by frag- 
ments of other bones; the third skull lay at some distance from the others. 
No other burials were determined, though altogether bones were encountered 
in forty-two places. No skeletal remains were saved. 
1 « Stone Art,” Thirteenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., fig. 218, p. 156. 
