SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 377 
Two burials, a bunched and an extended one, were accompanied with masses 
of red pigment; while a large bunched burial, having fifteen skulls, had a lump of 
red paint and a bit of yellow ochre about 2 inches in diameter, concave on one side, 
where doubtless material for use as paint had been worked out. 
An extended burial had red and yellow pigment near the skull, and a small, 
flint! arrowhead with triangular blade and a shank for attachment. 
Apart from bones in the soil was a slender, barbed arrowhead of flint. 
MOUND NEAR Ели CLIFF, ApAMS County, Miss. 
About one mile in a southerly direction from Ellis Cliff, on rising ground form- 
ing part of the hills that here approach the river, was the remnant of a small mound 
which had been dug into previous to our coming. Investigation of the parts 
remaining yielded two burials and parts of two others. One skeleton lay closely 
flexed on the back, the knees being drawn up toward the chin. Another was 
closely flexed оп the right side. Two skeletons which had been interred side by 
side, closely flexed on the right side, had lost heads and shoulders by the making 
of another grave in aboriginal times. 
No artifacts were present with these burials. 
Fia. 3.—Pipe of sandstone. Church Hill, Miss. (Full size.) 
At Gum Ridge, Jefferson County, Miss., a settlement on the river, Mr. T. G. 
Wood of that place, kindly presented to the Academy a gracefully shaped celt, 
probably of metamorphic rock, and a pipe of sandstone, having a rounded bowl 
but rectangular in transverse section as to the part intended for the reception of 
1 The term “flint” is used in a general way in this report to include chert and other closely 
allied rocks. : 
48 JOURN. А. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XIV. 
