ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 159 
Exclusive of pottery, but little in the way of artifacts was present with burials. 
With fragments of bone was a chisel 3 inches in length, neatly chipped from a 
chert pebble, having an edge beautifully ground. Two earthenware vessels lay 
with this burial. | 
With another burial was а chisel of a fairly hard, fine grained stone, 3.5 inches 
in length. 
Burial No. 54, an extended skeleton, had two vessels at the head; an earthen- 
ware pipe at the left of the pelvis; an ornament (Fig. 166), probably of claystone, 
having a part extending horizontally at one end, and a decoration consisting of 
three faint, parallel, encircling lines at the opposite extremity. This ornament, 
badly broken when found, has since been cemented together. 
Four pipes of earthenware came from this cemetery, three certainly associated 
with burials and the fourth probably having been with human remains at one 
time. All are shown in Figs. 167 to 170, inclusive. 
The vessels of earthenware from this place, thirty-nine in all, lay with burials 
in most instances, and when they did not, their position was presumably a result of 
disturbance or was owing to bones formerly with them having disappeared through 
decay. Their position was usually near the skull, sometimes singly, never more 
than two together. Several were inverted; in one was the carapace of a tortoise, 
in fragments. Hardly a vessel was recovered entire, and the great majority not 
only were crushed into fragments, but also were so disintegrated that they were 
most cases, had been insuf- 
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impossible to preserve. Тһе ware, shell-tempered i1 
ficiently kneaded, so that the distribution of the tempering material was uneven, 
and later, presumably, the paste had been insufficiently fired. 
Many of the vessels were without decoration, while the ornamentation of others 
was unambitious in design and rude in execution. 
The following vessels are the most noteworthy from this place : 
Vessel No. 21, a bottle of dark ware and having a flat base (a characteristic of 
nearly all the vessels from this place), undecorated, is 11.5 inches in height. The 
neck, converging somewhat toward the opening, is 6 inches in length. 
(Length 6.6 inches.) 
Ето. 171.— Vessel No. 20. Seven Pines Landing. 
Vessel No. 20. А trough-shaped vessel of thick, porous, yellow ware, shown 
in Fig. 171. 
