AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 319 
During the digging were found, apart from burials: а canine tooth of a bear, 
perforated for suspension; a small “сей”; two mussel-shell hoes, one Quadrula 
heros, the other somewhat broken; two piercing implements of bone; an object 
about 3 inches long made from half of a hollow bone, probably of a bird; three 
of the pillar-shaped supports of pottery, similar to ones found elsewhere along the 
river. 
Exclusive of pottery there were with burials: fragments of sheet-copper in 
three instances (that with Burial No. 35, analyzed by Dr. H. F. Keller, proving, as 
we have stated elsewhere, to be a purely aboriginal product); three antler-points 
found together; two shell beads; three shell beads and two shell ear-plugs; the 
scapula of a Virginia deer, perforated at the side and at the end in a manner to 
make the holes meet at right angles. 
Sixty-three earthenware vessels came from this mound, four being the greatest 
number with any one burial. Red pigment had been used on but one vessel, a 
bowl having a uniform coating inside and out. 
The general character of the vessels was the same as that commonly found on 
the St. Francis, being as a rule without decoration. One bottle, originally mounted 
on a tripod, showed where the legs having broken, the base of the vessel had been 
smoothed to allow its continued use. А small bottle, also with tripod support, had 
been intended to have a spherical body, which, however, was flattened on one side 
as if the vessel, while still in a plastic state, had been placed on its side in a way 
to impair its roundness of outline, and in that condition had been fired. 
Somewhat more than three additional days were devoted to the remainder of 
our digging near Turkey Island. 
There seemed to have been no general place of burial at the aboriginal settle- 
ment other than the mound we have described. Burials had been scattered and 
were comparatively few, even making allowance for those which had been disturbed 
before our coming. 
Apart from the mound, fifty-two burials were encountered, as follows : 
Adults . ; ы š ; | 21 
Adolescents . . í i , А NUR C 
Children, including infants . ' < | ; i 25 
Not determined 2 
Of the last two burials one had been almost absorbed by the roots of a large 
tree and the other was a deposit of caleined bones, about 1 foot in diameter and 3 
inches thick. The bones had been so reduced by the action of fire that it was not 
possible to say with certainty if they were human or not, but as deposits of this 
kind in aboriginal sites almost invariably are of human bones, we have included 
this one in our enumeration. 
The form of burial was at full length on the back, with the possible exception 
of remains of several infants, as to which we were unable to determine, and the 
remains of an older child and of an adolescent, both of which burials lay flexed to 
