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just been made, are uncommon along the St. Francis. 
heads wrought from antler-points are more numerous 
we have found them to be elsewhere. 
Burial No. 44, the skeleton of a child, had near the upper part of the skull a 
bowl in which was a small pot inverted. Also near the skull were two bottles. 
At the right and on the left of the cranium was an ear-plug of shell of the blunt 
pin variety, while beads of shell, including one perforated marine shell (Ола 
literata), lay at the neck. Square beads of shell having carved line decoration 
were on the upper part of the thorax. At the left shoulder was a bottle, its open- 
ing covered with a small bowl inverted. 
Burial No. 49, an adult, in addition to pottery, had, at the neck, one large, 
spherical shell bead, and seven tubular beads of bone, each about one inch in length. 
Throughout the digging were found, apart from burials, and probably lost while 
the site was inhabited: a spade of flint, 7 inches long and 4 inches in maximum 
diameter; three small ear-plugs of earthenware; several piercing implements of 
bone; antler-points; earthenware disks made from broken pottery, perforate and 
imperforate; one bone bead; a small “ celt,” probably of sedimentary rock; one 
pipe of earthenware, of ordinary type. 
One hundred and twelve vessels of earthenware were found on the Miller 
Place, fifty-eight of which were presented to the owners. A large proportion of the 
remainder, undecorated and hopelessly crushed, was not available for removal. 
In eight of the vessels found were mussel-shells—two in one instance. Bones 
of small fish were in four vessels. 
The maximum number of vessels found with one burial was six, in one in- 
stance; but, as a rule, one, two, or three vessels lay with the dead, though occa- 
sionally burials were found unaccompanied with any artifact. As is usually the 
case, small vessels as a rule had been placed with burials of children. 
Paint had been used as a decoration for pottery in nine instances, three times 
consisting of a uniform coating of red. 
In three cases at the Miller Place incised decoration over the bodies of vessels 
which had not been intended for culinary purposes had been attempted, but was of 
the rudest character. It was noted here also, as elsewhere, that a marked tendency 
on the part of the aborigines had existed to place imperfect vessels with the dead. 
The following vessels from this place seem worthy of special mention. 
Vessel No. 1, a bottle of yellow ware (Plate XXV), has in red pigment two 
parallel bands around the neck, and on the body, also in red, a combination based 
on the swastika, the symbol of the four winds or directions. 
Vessel No. 42. This bottle (Plate XXVI), originally with a tripod support, 
which had been lost through breakage in aboriginal times, has a decoration consist- 
ing of a number of stepped or terraced figures representing cloud-symbols, done in 
red pigment on a background of white material, doubtless kaolin such as we found 
had been used for pigment along Arkansas river. The neck of the bottle shows 
much wear, and the designs formerly upon it are hardly distinguishable at the pres- 
On the other hand, arrow- 
in the St. Francis region than 
