AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 269 
MOUND ON THE BONNER PLACE, Sr. FRANCIS COUNTY. 
About one-quarter mile inland, in a straight line, through partly cleared 
ground, from the landing at the upper end of the Bonner Place, belonging to Mr. 
Edward Bonner, Sr., of Forrest City, Ark., one comes to the house of the tenant 
occupying that part of the property. Immediately back of the house is the rem- 
nant of a mound which has been much reduced in height and increased in diameter 
by cultivation. The height at the time of our visit was about 3 feet; the diameter, 
45 feet. 
This mound has a history as an aboriginal burial place, and fragments of human 
bone were scattered over the surface when we visited it. What we considered to 
be the original mound was dug out by us, and subsequently refilled, as the high 
ground was required for the use of stock in periods of high water. 
Human remains in the last stage of decay were present in a number of places 
in the mound, including a large deposit of long-bones piled parallel to one another, 
having four skulls at the margin of the pile. Possibly other crania in small frag- 
ments were included in this deposit. 
No artifacts were found immediately with burials, but scattered throughout the 
mound were several bowls, two small bottles, a human eftigy figure, and an earthen- 
ware pipe. 
The ware of all these is black, almost without shell tempering, and imperfectly 
fired. In consequence, several of the vessels were in disintegrating bits, and all 
but one, a bottle, were very badly broken. No ornamentation of any kind was 
present on the earthenware of this mound. | 
Vessel No. 4, a human effigy bottle, found in ninety-five fragments, since 
cemented together (Figs. 4, 5), has an interesting arrangement of the head-dress 
and the hair, and is represented as wearing a garment resembling an apron. The 
tongue protrudes, seemingly ; or else some object is represented as held in the mouth. 
The pipe, of a common type in Arkansas, has two small projecting feet at the 
base of the bowl, to enable the pipe to remain upright when placed on a level sur- 
face. Supports of this kind are sometimes prominent features on these pipes, as 
they are on the one figured by us as coming from the Rose Mound (Fig. 8). In 
other cases, however, the supports are less conspicuous, and in some cases are 
hardly more than rudimentary. 
CEMETERY NEAR Bia Еррү, Sr. Francis COUNTY. 
Big Eddy, a bay formed by the swirl of the river in periods of high water, is 
almost surrounded by woodland sloping upward to low hills that at this place nearly 
approach the water. The territory for a considerable distance around is owned by 
Mrs. Mary Lee Dennis, of Hot Springs, Ark., and is under the management of Mr. 
Robert J. Rhodes, of Whiteville, Tenn. 
By following for a short distance the county road leading inland (another road 
1 For many effigy bottles described and figured, see Gen. Gates P. Thruston’s “Antiquities of 
Tennessee,” 2d ed. 
