SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 375 
SITES INVESTIGATED. 
(Lower MıssıssIPPI VALLEY.) 
Near Shaw Field, Pointe Coupée Parish,’ Louisiana. 
Trudeau, West Feliciana Parish, La. 
Near Glendale Landing, Concordia Parish, La. 
Near Ellis Cliff, Adams County, Mississippi. 
Near Oak Bend Landing, Warren County, Miss. 
Near Glass, Warren County, Miss. 
Shadyside Landing, Washington County, Miss. 
Richland, Desha County, Arkansas. 
Near Neblett Landing, Bolivar County, Miss. 
(Мооге MississiPP: VALLEY.) 
Avenue, Phillips County, Ark. 
Kent Place, Lee County, Ark. 
Johnson Place, Tunica County, Miss. 
Commerce, Tunica County, Miss. 
Rhodes Place, Crittenden County, Ark. 
Mound Place, Crittenden County, Ark. 
Bradley Place, Crittenden County, Ark. 
Pecan Point, Mississippi County, Ark. 
Stoflle Place, Mississippi County, Ark. 
MOUNDS NEAR SHAW FIELD, POINTE COUPEE PARISH, La. 
About one mile in a WNW. direction from Shaw Field, which is on the river's 
bank, are two mounds, near together, in woods, on property of Messrs. James and 
Emmett Cotton, of Raccourci, La. 
The larger mound, somewhat more than 6 feet in height, is almost square as 
to its base, with a diameter of about 100 feet. Eleven trial-holes sunk into the 
summit-plateau showed the mound to be of rather raw clay into which graves, none 
of which found by us exceeding 2 feet in depth, had been dug from the surface in 
places. Five burials were encountered, four of the bunched variety, and one, badly 
decayed, which seemingly had been a skeleton closely flexed on the left side. 
Of the four bunched burials one consisted of bones with which apparently no 
skull had been placed; one had three skulls; one, five skulls; and one had seven- 
teen skulls. All the bones were badly decayed. 
The only objects found with the burials were three flat pebbles: two with one 
burial, one with another. 
The smaller mound, resembling the other in shape, seemed not to have been 
used for burial purposes, as our digging came upon only clay unmixed with organic 
matter. 
__ | The State of Louisiana uses the term parish to designate that division of the commonwealth 
which in every other State in the Union is known as a county. 
