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276 ANTIQUITIES ОЕ THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
remains. The list of such objects is as follows: а “celt” of flint, about 4.6 inches 
in length; a small “celt” of sedimentary rock; a shell spoon made from a mussel- 
shell (Lampsilis purpurata); two disks made from fragments of pottery vessels, 
one with central perforation and one without it; a tine of a deer-antler, separated 
by circular cutting and subsequent breaking; a few vessels of earthenware. 
The pottery found by us in this cemetery, sixty-seven vessels in all, was in 
many cases so decayed and crushed that little but crumbling bits remained on 
removal. Among the vessels preserved were few of types not already well-known 
in the region. 
The following vessels are of more interest than are the majority of those from 
this place. | 
Vessel Хо. 18. Тһе vase shown in Plate IX is coated with red pigment and 
has around the neck four solid projections which are conventionalized loop-handles. 
The vessel is supported by four feet whose notched margins, in conjunction 
with the shape of the feet, probably represent cloud symbols. 
Vessel No. 41. This bowl, shown in Fig. 7, is more striking in reality than is 
the half-tone representation of it, as the profile view introduced to display the heavy 
coil of hair on the back does not show enough of the face to portray its rather 
interesting features. The ware is thick. There are two rude, encircling, incised 
lines around the upper part of the body of the bowl. 
MOUND NEAR Bay Ferry, Cross COUNTY. 
In a cultivated field, the property of Mr. R. Block, of Vanndale, Ark., is a 
mound about one mile in a S. by W. direction from the landing at Bay Ferry. The 
mound, of clay, 5 feet 9 inches in height and 48 feet in diameter, is in the form of 
a truncated cone. 
Nine trial-holes carried to the base of the mound came upon burials in six 
instances, all badly decayed. 
With three of the burials were six vessels, two to each, of common shape, 
undecorated and dropping into fragments. 
Easterly, in full view from the mound, is a ridge apparently left by wash of 
water. Trial-holes sunk in this place, which we thought might have been utilized 
for burials, were unproductive. 
Tur Козе Мосхр, Cross County. 
About 3 miles below Parkin is the Rose Place, well-known in the neighbor- 
hood, a part of which now belongs to Mr. P. H. Wissinger, of Parkin, Ark., and is 
called the Mound Field. 
This field, in reality a great mound, quadrangular with rounded corners, gener- 
ally flat, but having many inequalities of surface, lying in woods, about one mile in 
from the river, seemingly in the past was part of a tongue of land pointing west- 
ward. Although the side of the mound nearest the river at the present time is on 
the north, at the time of the making of the mound the course of the river was to 
