354 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
No attempt at decoration in color is anywhere shown. 
We are fully aware that in mounds and cemeteries vessels commonplace in 
form and decoration predominate, but we do not recall in any previous investiga- 
tion in which any considerable number of vessels was found, having met with pot- 
tery which indicated such lack of skill or ambition on the part of its makers. 
A ring of earthenware, possibly an ear-plug, rudely wrought, with an encir- 
cling groove, was found apart from human remains. 
The only artifact present in the mound, with the exception of pottery, was a 
single arrowhead of flint. 
In the same field in which was Mr. Dowell’s mound, and about one-quarter 
mile in a southwesterly direction from it, was a slight rise in the ground, circular 
in shape, which at one time may have been a small mound. On the surface lay 
fragments of human bones and two beads of shell. Fourteen trial-holes came upon 
a disintegrating skeleton lying partly flexed on the right side, 10 inches below the 
surface. At the skull was an undecorated bowl of inferior ware. 
In a field about one mile to the north of the Dowell Place are several dwelling- 
sites on which were arrowpoints, fragments of flint, and other midden debris, 
including parts of two earthenware disks, each of which had possessed a central 
perforation. 
Моџхр NEAR PERKINS FIELD, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. 
About one-half mile through woods, in a NW. direction from Perkins’ Field, 
which is near the river bank, is a mound on property belonging to the Barnett 
Lumber Company, of Batesville, Ark. This mound, of rich, black loam, circular 
in outline and about 85 feet in diameter, has a height of 3 feet, approximately. 
lt is not a burial mound, strictly speaking, that is, it is not а mound built 
exclusively for burial purposes, but rather a dwelling-site which formed gradually 
during long occupancy and in which the dead had been interred. 
Ten trial-holes, which were subsequently enlarged, some to double and some 
to almost treble their original size, resulted in the discovery of thirty-one burials of 
the customary closely-flexed or partly-flexed forms, and a few aboriginal disturb- 
ances which, the reader will recall, are caused by graves in aboriginal times being 
dug through earlier burials. 
The interments lay from 8 inches below the surface to a depth somewhat more 
than 3 feet, the deepest being not in the mound proper but beneath it, in tenaci- 
ous clay on which the mound was built. 
The bones of all these burials were badly decayed. With them were: a lance- 
point of flint; several masses of stone ; a lot of flint chips somewhat scattered, which 
may have been simply midden refuse lying in the neighborhood of bones. 
There was also with a burial a pipe of soft claystone, 1.8 inches long and 1.5 
inches in diameter, having a hole in the base in such a position that a stem inserted in 
it would have the bowl not at right angles but extending in the same axis with it. 
