278 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
Twelve working days, with nine men to dig and four to supervise, were devo- 
ted by us to the Rose Mound. During this time two hundred and seven burials 
were found by us, no fewer than seventy-one of which were of children or of infants. 
The form of burial of some of the interments, especially in the case of children 
and infants, was not determined by us, but the great majority of burials lay 
extended on the back. The following exceptions to this rule were noted : 
Partly flexed on the right side 15 
Partly flexed on the left side 7 
Closely flexed on the left side 1 
In a squatting position 1 
Three burials were as follows: : 
Burial Хо. 75, ап adult, had the trunk on Ше back, the thighs somewhat 
everted and flexed, and the legs flexed, bringing the feet together. 
Burial No. 166, a child, had the trunk on the back, the thighs flexed at right 
angles upward, and the legs flexed on the thighs. 
Burial No. 203, an adult, lay closely flexed and semirecumbent on the back, 
the head considerably higher than the pelvis. 
The number of vessels found by us, broken and whole, in the Rose Mound was 
five hundred and eighty-seven. Very many of these were left in place, their con- 
dition being such as to make removal practically impossible, and their quality of a 
kind to inspire no wish to add them to our collection. Of the vessels taken from 
the mound by us two hundred and thirty-five were presented to Mr. Wissinger, the 
owner of the property. 
We shall describe the more interesting vessels from this place at the close of 
our account of the Rose Mound. 
A considerable number of objects were found apart from burials in the Rose 
Mound, including some pottery vessels. In the case of these latter, however, we 
believe the separation of most of them may be accounted for by the digging, aborigi- 
nal and recent, which had taken place in the mound. This applies also to a num- 
ber of other objects found, but not to smoking-pipes, which in most of the sites 
along the river, as well as in the Rose Mound, were found away from burials, and 
probably were lost in the debris by aboriginal dwellers on the site. 
Among the objects found apart from burials were seven earthenware pipes, 
five of which are rudely made, and all undecorated with the exception of one, which 
has a very irregular and crudely incised swastika design. Two of the seven pipes 
(one of which is included among those we have described as coarsely made) were 
found near fireplaces or kilns and bear no mark of use. They are, moreover, light 
yellow in color, and though fairly hard, indicate by their shade that the process of 
firing had not been completed. The remaining pipe of the seven (Fig. 8) belongs 
to a type before referred to by us as common on St. Francis river, and figured ' by 
Holmes as coming from Arkansas, on which two feet, or supports, project forward 
from the base of the bowl to enable the pipe to maintain an erect position when 
' Plate XX XIII, d. “Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern U. S." 
