ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
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The position of vessels in respect to each other along the St. Francis was the 
same as we have found it to be elsewhere. Vessels often lay within other vessels 
or under them, and bottles were often capped by small, inverted bowls which some- 
times. in the case of bottles with short necks, covered the neck completely, the rim 
of the inverted bowl resting on the body of the bottle. 
In many vessels, or occasionally placed on the openings of some of them, were 
mussel-shells which had served as spoons,’ and sometimes shells carved to represent 
spoons were present. 
In burial sites along St. Francis and Little rivers were found bones from various 
animals which Prof. F. A. Lucas kindly has determined as dog, deer, otter, beaver, 
cottontail rabbit, raccoon, wildcat, and probably elk. 
We shall now describe certain sites along St. Francis and Little rivers, taken 
in order going up-stream, introducing only sites where our search was rewarded, 
though many others were visited by us and much unproductive work was done in 
them. We believe we had the privilege of examining all the important sites along 
the St. Francis except two (some were exhausted years ago), and these two sites, 
the Clay-Luna Place and the Cook Place, both in Cross County, it is needless to 
say, were not omitted by us without many strenuous efforts for permission to 
investigate. 
SITES INVESTIGATED. 
Forrest Place, Lee County. 
Whitehall Place, Lee County. 
Castile Place, St. Francis County. 
Bonner Place, St. Francis County. 
Big Eddy, St. Francis County. 
Bay Ferry, Cross County. 
Rose Mound, Cross County. 
Parkin, Cross County. 
Togo, Cross County. 
Jones and Borum Places, Cross County. 
Neeley’s Ferry, Cross County. 
Catfish Mounds, Cross County. 
Mounds above Turkey Island, Cross County. 
Log Landing, Cross County. 
Fortune Mounds, Cross County. 
Turnbow Place, Cross County. 
Lindsay Place, Poinsett County. 
Cummings Place, Poinsett County. 
Miller Place, Poinsett County. 
Potter Place, Poinsett County. 
Stott Place, Poinsett County. 
! [n this connection it is interesting to note that the Japanese word kai stands for both shell and 
spoon : and that the Chinese ideograph for the word “spoon” is said to have been copied from a shell 
resembling a ресјеп. N. Gordon Munro, M. D., “Reflections on some European Palzeoliths and 
Japanese Survivals.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. XXXV I, Part III. 
