342 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
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Тһе tenant informed us һе had dug into Ше mound, intending to make a 
receptacle for potatoes, but coming upon human bones he had abandoned the pro- 
ject. With these bones, he told us, was a ball of stone and a grooved axe, which 
latter he presented to us. 
The mound was practically leveled by us with the aid of from eight to twelve 
men, in twenty-nine working hours. While a mound of sand the size of this one 
could have been demolished with an equal force in half the time, this tumulus of 
loamy material, owing to long continued drought, was, with the exception of super- 
ficial parts, dried to a degree of hardness requiring constant use of the pick. This 
condition was not only a cause of delay, but made the recovery of objects difficult 
without subjecting them to breakage. 
Fic. 64.—Vessel of earthenware. Mounds near Chandler Landing. (Height 3.4 inches.) 
Human remains in this mound were often only decaying fragments—sometimes 
mere particles of bone—and were present throughout, but less frequently than 
would be expected in a mound of the size of the one in question were it not borne 
in mind that, presumably, many burials had entirely disappeared. 
The condition of the bones and the character of the material in which most of 
them were embedded made determination of the form of burial impossible, though 
in several instances the burial at length was indicated. In one case a layer of bones 
was present, apparently consisting of skeletons and parts of skeletons mingled, 
many bones, however, being missing and others being out of place. 
The artifacts in this mound, and in a small neighboring one to be described 
later, show that a culture tending toward the use of stone exclusively had prevailed 
at the place, a fact quite exceptional in all our work in Arkansas. 
