AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 351 
MOUND. ON TEE HAMES PLACE, WOODRUFF COUNTY. 
The Hames Place. belonging to Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Hames, residing on the 
property, has а history of human bones found while sinking postholes and in the 
course of agricultural work. In the garden and in the barnyard is raised ground, 
apparently what is left of a ridge or of a low mound. The soil in this elevation is 
black from admixture of organic matter. 
Considerable digging in the garden unearthed six skeletons at a depth of from 
15 inches to 2 feet from the surface. The bones were in bad condition, one skull 
and a few long-bones only being saved. 
The burials, four of adults and two of children, were as follows : 
Closely flexed on the right side — . ; : ; š 1 
Partly flexed on the right side . ! : : қ қ 2072 
Partly flexed on the left side . | ; i ч 
With one skeleton were shell beads аё the neck, and the skeleton of a child 
had at the waist a pebble, a small quantity of powdered hematite, and discoidal 
beads of shell. These beads, in a double string, had been worn as a girdle. 
In an adjacent field are a few small elevations on most of which were masses 
of baked clay bearing imprint of wattle, no doubt fragments from burnt wigwams. 
Three of these rises of the ground were dug into by us without success. 
Tue TEAGUE MOUND, WOODRUFF County. 
Тһе Teague Mound, on the old Snapp Place, belonging to Messrs. Fitzhugh 
Brothers & Haralson, of Fitzhugh, Ark., is widely known on White river, and the 
fact that a mound of this size is famous shows how unimportant as to size the 
mounds on this river are. 
The Teague Mound is in the form of a ridge (perhaps a mound and a cause- 
way) 210 feet in length, extending almost due N. and S. From the southern 
extremity, where the height is 6 feet and the breadth 58 feet, the ridge slopes 
gradually upward to an altitude of 10 feet at the northern end, where it is 100 feet 
In transverse measurement. 
This mound, which has suffered greatly through wash of rain, has every 
appearance of having been built for domiciliary purposes. Considerable digging 
into the raw clay of which it is made yielded nothing. 
We shall now consider the sites on Black river. 
MOUND AND CEMETERY AT ELGIN, JACKSON COUNTY. 
About one-quarter mile below Elgin, a small settlement on Black river, on the 
same side of the stream, immediately on the bank, is a mound slightly eaten into 
by the river and much spread by cultivation. This mound, on property belonging 
to Mr. J. O. Taylor, living near Newport, Ark., is but little above the general level, 
and is circular in outline, with a diameter of about 100 feet. It is composed of rich, 
loamy sand. Considerable digging yielded one badly decayed skeleton, closely 
· flexed on the right side. 
