324 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
ties directed downward from the base of the neck, and a similar figure with the 
arms pointing upward from the base of the vessel. Around the body is à design 
seemingly based on the swastika, four times shown, with a modification 1n one inst- 
ance where the figure has five arms, this fifth arm connecting with one of the points 
of the upper star. The decoration on the neck seems to consist of a zigzag of gray 
pigment running between series of triangles in red. 
MouNps NEAR Loc LANDING, Cross COUNTY. 
Near the river bank, at a log landing, the name of which, if it has one, we did 
not learn, on the western side of the river, are three low mounds, one of which is 
crossed by teams hauling timber, and another is partly traversed by the road, Іп 
these two mounds but little digging was done, owing to our wish to avoid injuring 
roads over which heavy loads must pass. 
Digging in one of the mounds and in part of another resulted in the discovery 
of four burials of adults, all extended on the back. With each of these burials, 
near the skull, were a bottle and a bowl, all undecorated with the exception of one 
bowl which had loop-handles, and on the body rude imprints probably of a section 
of a reed. 
FORTUNE MOUNDS, Cross County.’ 
The Fortune Mounds, as the place is called, the property of Mr. W. 5. James, 
of Bay Village, Ark., consist of ridges of the ground and one flat mound on the 
river bank of the type with which the reader is familiar. This mound, presumably 
quadrangular in the past, is now of irregular outline through wash of water. Its 
area is probably about two acres. The height of the mound varies greatly. The 
upper surface, which is strewn with dwelling-site debris, slopes slightly downward 
toward the northern, or river, side. The other sides have suffered to such an 
extent through wash, and so much surrounding soil has been carried away by the 
river, that the height of the mound varies at almost every part. Probably origi- 
nally its altitude did not exceed 6 or 7 feet. 
This place bears a great reputation for the discovery of human skeletons and 
accompanying pottery in the past, and evidently it had been most persistently 
sounded and dug previous to our coming. It was from here that the head vessel 
in Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., was taken. 
Considerable digging on our part resulted in the discovery of one skeleton at 
full length, having an undecorated vessel at the head. 
THE Товхвоу PLace, Cross COUNTY. 
About one-quarter mile in from the river is a tract of cultivated ground, about 
fifty acres in extent, known as the Turnbow Place, and belonging to Mr. 
Turnbow, who resides upon it. Part of this place is made up of a number of ridges 
and high places, and is similar to other aboriginal sites along St. Francis river. 
Most of the elevated ground at this place, however, had little superficial sign of 
