AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 273 
Burial Хо. 8, extended on the back, 4 feet 6 inches down. Vessels lay one at 
the left hand; one somewhat farther up; one near the left shoulder. At the right 
humerus were: a “се” of silicious limestone; two bone implements with rounded 
points; a flat flint pebble showing marks of use; a flat mass, probably crystallized 
sandstone; a fragment of pottery; a decayed bit of bone having belonged to a 
lower animal, part of which had been cut away; a bead of bone, 1.75 inches in 
length; four small shell beads. 
Burials Nos. 1 and 3 were interestingly associated, showing, as they did, 
distinctly different periods of interment, Burial Хо. 3 lying below a stratum 
of clay which locally formed part of the ridge, while Burial No. 1 had cut through 
this stratum, so that it is clear that one burial had been made before the formation 
of the stratum, while the other had . 
; OT TETERA mood 
been made subsequently (Diagram, _‚ чоо а аага У 
Fig. 6). Js ae жеті: пад: iT SS Байжан есу Sie 
Burial No. 4, а child, 2 feet. а 
below the surface. Over the pelvis 
was an earthenware vessel, along- 
side of which was another one stand- 
ing upright (which is the position, 
unless otherwise specified, of all ves- — - 
sels described by us as coming from 0020: posuer AES, 
this cemetery, but not necessarily BAS. ‘ D и 9» T is ES 2 пат | | 
the case as to vessels referred to by С б Ж f 
us in accounts of other places of MITOS Sell at шт ы, ЖУ 
burial), resting on which was а third Ж Жез А. 
vessel, inverted. Near the vessels à : 
lay a bone pin. 
Burial No. 5, a child, extended on the back, had at the left knee a bowl which 
had been covered with an inverted fragment of a large vessel; at the left side of 
the skull was a pot. At the head and neck were a few shell-beads, some of which 
were small ocean shells (O/rva Петата), ground for stringing; and three tubular 
beads of sheet-copper, with overlapping edges, the longest 1.9 inches in length. 
One of these beads, analyzed quantitively by Dr. H. F. Keller (see page 258 of 
this report), proved to be of pure, native copper which could not have been obtained 
from Europeans. ` 
At the right side of the skull of this burial was a group of five vessels in line : 
a pot inverted over a bowl; a pot inverted; a bowl turned over a bottle. In addi- 
tion to all other objects placed with this favored child there lay, on the bottom of 
the pot which was covered by the bowl, a spoon carved from a heavy mussel-shell 
(Lampsilis purpurata) having the edge of the shell ground away, and a series of 
neatly-made notches cut at one end to form a handle. 
Burial No. 6 lay partly flexed on the left side, 3 feet 9 inches down. Near the 
skull was a leaf-shaped point of flint, about 1.5 inches in length, while back of the 
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Ета. 6.—Plan of graves. Big Eddy. 
35 JOURN. А. N. 8. PHILA., VOL. XIV. 
