ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, AND 
BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 
By CLARENCE В, Moore. 
INTRODUCTION, 
Our last season’s field work, all of it in the State of Arkansas, occupied most 
of the months of November, 1909, and January and April, 1910, and all of Febru- 
ary and March, 1910. 
The regions covered by us were: St. Francis river to its union with Little 
river, 172 miles by water," and up the latter stream to Lepanto, 20 miles further; 
White river to its union with Black river, 265 miles by water; and Black river to 
its junction with Current river, a distance of 109 miles. 
White river is navigable in favorable seasons from the union with Black river 
to Batesville, Ark., 37 miles by water; but at the time of our visit the state of 
White river was not such as to permit us to go much farther up it than its union 
with Black river, nor had our success on White river been such as to tempt us to 
do so. 
As we have explained in former reports, it is our custom each summer to have 
Mr. J. S. Raybon, captain of the steamer from which our work in the winter is 
done, who is deeply interested in our investigations and renders efficient aid, visit 
in advance such territory as we desire to explore, in order to find the exact situa- 
tion of all mounds and cemeteries in that territory, with the names of their owners, 
that we may obtain permission in advance to investigate these sites, that later our 
work may not be impeded. Incidentally, we may say that owners of property 
throughout the South are, as a rule, most kind in granting us permission to dig, and 
the Academy here takes the opportunity to express its sincere thanks to the owners 
of mounds and of cemeteries along the rivers we have mentioned, for the cordial 
way their property was placed at our disposal. As much of this property is culti- 
vated ground, and as we were present at many places in the planting season, per- 
mission for unlimited digging is certainly a considerable favor, and it is so regarded 
by the Academy. 
The territory explored by Captain Raybon in advance of our coming (see map) 
was St. Francis river to its union with Little river, and Little river to the foot 
of Big Lake, Ark., 262 miles by water. 
` 1 All distances on these rivers kindly have been furnished the Academy by Major M. L. Walker, 
United States Engineer Corps, Little Rock, Ark., to whom the Academy is indebted for many courtesies. 
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