376 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
SITE АТ TRUDEAU, West FELICIANA PARISH, LA. 
Immediately at Trudeau Landing is a farm with a residence somewhat back 
from the river. At one side of this 
house is black soil, indicating former _ 
aboriginal occupancy. Through part 
of this ground ran a small road, from 
the side of which, we were informed 
by the occupant of the house, an intel- 
ligent colored man, a brass kettle had 
been uncovered by wash of rain. 
While digging into this place, after 
the discovery of the kettle, we were 
told, various objects of iron or of steel 
were unearthed, and also a pipe, prob- 
ably of catlinite (Fig. 1), which we 
obtained. 
Seven trial-holes put down by us near where the kettle had been discovered, 
failed to come upon graves, though dwelling-site debris was encountered in places. 
Етс. 1.—Pipe of catlinite. Trudeau, La. (Full size.) 
MOUND NEAR GLENDALE LANDING, CONCORDIA PARISH, La. 
In woods about 1.5 mile in a northerly direction from Glendale Landing, on 
property belonging to Mr. J. M. Davis, resident nearby, is a mound irregularly cir- 
cular in outline, having a basal diameter of about 100 feet. The present height of 
the mound, which is said to have been trampled down somewhat by cattle who seek 
it at times of overflow, is about 4 feet. As this place of refuge is highly prized by 
its owner, its destruction by us was wholly out of the question. 
The mound apparently contains many burials, as eight trial-holes came upon 
seven interments, and in the removal of these, eight more were discovered. These 
fifteen burials, all in graves let down from the surface, none deeper than slightly 
more than 2 feet, were nine of the bunched variety and six of adults extended on 
the back, one of which had lost a leg through aboriginal disturbance. 
Although bits of pottery were scattered throughout the mound, probably refuse 
material gathered with the soil, but one vessel was found with the burials. This 
vessel (Fig. 2), which lay near | 
the skull of a child, forming 
part of a bunched burial, is a 
small, flat bowl, having as deco- 
ration a design in the main 
composed of partly interlocked 
scrolls, alternate scrolls filled 
in with reticulate lines, and 
having a flat, circular base 
slightly projecting, in the cen- 
ter of which a hole has been made—possibly by a root. 
Fic. 2.—Earthenware vessel. Glendale Landing, La. (Diam. 4.8 inches.) 
