330 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
Somewhat back from the landing, but in full view from it, аге two mounds 
surrounded by cultivated ground. One of these, doubtless quadrangular in the 
past, has now the outline of a triangle with extremities somewhat blunted. Its 
height above the general level is 12 feet, though if measured from positions where 
it is evident that soil has been removed, the height is considerably greater. The 
diameters are 175 and 140 feet. The summit-plateau is about 100 feet by 70 feet, 
This mound was dug into superficially with negative results. 
The other mound, a truncated cone and very symmetrical, rises about 13 feet 
above the general level of the surrounding fields. Its diameter is 112 feet. 
This mound, so far as we could determine, is composed of raw-looking, tena- 
cious clay. Almost at the surface of the summit was a burial accompanied with 
four bottles. 
It is most unlikly that this mound contains burials throughout, and it was not 
in our power to determine the matter with the force of diggers under our control, 
even if the destruction of a mound which might prove a place of refuge at a time 
of unusually high water were permissible or if the proposal to scatter quantities of 
raw clay over fertile ground could have been entertained by the owners. 
An excavation, partly filled with water at the time of our visit, whence, no 
doubt, material for the mounds had been taken, is near the ridges of which mention 
has been made. 
Three days were spent by us in digging at the Miller Place. Burials were 
encountered in all parts of the ridges, though they were somewhat scattered and 
never in large groups. 
Fifty-eight burials were encountered, excluding recent disturbances. Of these 
burials two were of adolescents, eighteen or possibly nineteen were of children, the 
remainder being of adults. 
With one exception, that of a child lying partly flexed on the right side, all 
burials when determined were at full length on the back, two having the feet 
crossed at the ankles. 
One skeleton lay with the head resting in a large bowl. 
The custom along the St. Francis of depositing few objects except pottery 
with the dead (and the natives there certainly fulfilled their duty in respect to 
pottery) was emphasized at this place. Shell beads (in one instance a single bead) 
were with six burials. In several cases small shells perforated longitudinally, badly 
decayed as a rule, lay with other beads. A single tubular bead of sheet-copper 
rested on the thorax of a skeleton. 
Burial No. 36, an adult, had at the right shoulder a pot, and a bottle farther 
down near the right humerus. At the left elbow were a bowl and a pot, the latter 
containing a large number of minute chips of flint. 
Burial No. 41, an adult, had a bowl at the skull, and at the outer side of the 
left thigh, four arrowheads made from antler-points, and two projectile points of 
flint of the elongated, leaf-shaped variety. Incidentally, it may be said that barbed 
arrowheads or any arrowheads of stone, except of the type to which reference has 
