272 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
follows the river), one reaches а mound 55 feet іп diameter of base and about 8 
feet in height, immediately by the roadside. 
This ии, of raw clay, probably the site of the wigwam of the chief, from 
which the superficial deposit of midden-refuse has washed away, yielded nothing to 
investigation. 
Across the road from the mound begins a low ridge of artificial origin, which, 
running westwardly, borders a shallow ravine and then turning southwardly is cut 
by the road and ends a short distance beyond it. 
This ridge, the level ground near it, and various small rises of the ground in 
its vicinity (all of which are still in woodland), as well as a field about 200 yards 
NE. from the mound, for many years have yielded pottery in amounts really sur- 
prising, to the efforts of inhabitants and of seekers of relics for the market, some of 
whom, it is said, devoted long periods of time to the work. The whole territory is 
literally seamed with traces of digging, except the field where the superficial evi- 
dence of search has been obliterated by the plow. 
A most careful examination was accorded by us to all this territory, with the 
aid of sounding-rods and by digging trial-holes, but so extensive had been the work 
of previous diggers that nothing except remains left by them was found by us, save 
two burials in the field, and a group of interments at the beginning of the ridge, 
just across the road from the mound, most of which were at a depth to defy the 
efforts of the sounding-rods of previous visitors. Unfortunately for us, both in the 
field and in the remainder of the cemetery in the woodland, the artificial deposit of 
loamy material and midden-debris was less deep and had offered every opportunity 
to the pottery-hunters. 
Twenty-four burials which came from the extremity of the ridge, and two 
additional ones from the field—all that were found by us—will be described in 
detail, with the general statement in advance that though the bones at this place 
were in fairly good condition, but one skull was uncrushed, and that neither at this 
place nor at any other place on the St. Francis was noted any orientation of burials. 
Burial No. 1, the skeleton of an adult (as are all not otherwise specified by us), 
lay extended on the back at a depth of 3 feet 9 inches, the measurement being 
made to the upper surface of the burial, which is the method practised by us in all 
our measurements of depths of interments. Above part of this burial, but near the 
surface, was the site of an aboriginal fireplace, marked by а layer of baked clay 
having a maximum thickness of 6 inches. This layer also extended over parts of 
other burials (Nos. 2 and 8). It is not our belief that the fireplace, which was far 
above the burials, had any connection with them, but we consider it to have been 
incidental to the dwelling-site. Fragments of burnt clay were present in the soil 
throughout the entire site. 
To return to Burial No. 1: at the neck were three tubular beads of shell; two 
vessels at the left shoulder; two at the left elbow; and one at the right humerus. 
Burial No. 2, at full length on the back, 3 feet 8 inches down. Two vessels 
lay at the right of the pelvis. 
