356 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
With all these beads, and no doubt used as central ornaments, were two barrel- 
shaped beads, one of claystone, one of red jasper, each about .8 inch in length. 
Burial No. 16,! closely flexed on the left side, had many shell beads extending 
from the chin to the pelvis, most of them very badly decayed, as was the case with 
the shell beads found with four of the five skeletons in this grave. 
With the ordinary beads along with Burial No. 16 was a considerable number 
of other beads, in a better state of preservation, made by suitably grinding a small 
river shell (Verztina lineolata). 
Evidently as a central piece with the beads with Burial No. 16 was a curious 
tube of claystone, 2.5 inches in length and .7 inch in diameter, the diameter of the 
hole being .4 inch. At intervals over the outer surface of this bead were semi- 
perforations made with a pointed drill, as is indicated by the absence of cores and 
the presence of a deeper central part in each semi-perforation. That this bead at 
one time had been of greater length is shown by the presence at one end, of two 
remaining halves of these markings left by a drill. 
Burial No. 17, lying closely flexed on the right side, had a number of shell 
beads with which were two tubular beads of jasper, опе red, the other yellow with 
a mingling of red, 1.2 inch and .8 in length respectively, both highly polished. 
Below the chin was a small drinking-cup wrought from a marine shell; and 
with the concave side against the skull was a badly decayed shell drinking-cup 
bearing incised decoration of a rather rude character (Figs. 73, 74, see p. 357). 
A drinking-cup of shell from Harrisburg, Ark.,? with engraved exterior decora- 
tion, is shown in Plate XXIII of the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of 
Ethnology. 
With the two remaining burials in this grave were shell beads only, which, as 
we have said, were badly affected by decay. | 
Harter KNOLL, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. 
Тһе landing on Strawberry river, to which reference has been made, has two 
roads leading from it, one of which we followed to reach Little Turkey Hill. 
By going out the other road, which pursues a W. by N. course, about one mile 
through the woods, one comes to Harter Knoll, which is immediately on the left 
side of the road. 
The Knoll, as it is called in the neighborhood, though it is of artificial origin, 
being of the same class of mounds as are the one near Perkins’ Field, and Little 
Turkey Hill, is under the same ownership as are these two mounds. It is 3.5 
feet in height and 115 feet, approximately, across its circular base, and is made 
of rich, dark soil, scattered through which we found hammer-stones, a few bits of 
pottery, and other midden debris. Thirteen very rude arrowpoints and knives 
were encountered also apart from human remains. 
* Burials are numbered in the order of their discovery and not according to proximity. 
* About forty miles in a straight line from where our cup was found 
° William H. Holmes, “ Art in Shell of the Ancient қалала 
