SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 379 
With a number of burials in this mound were glass beads, and with some were 
fragments of sheet-brass or of sheet-copper—sheet-brass certainly in some cases. 
Тһе mound, therefore, 18 post-Columbian. 
We shall now describe the artifacts present with some of the burials. 
Burial No. 13 was the skeleton of an adult, extended on the back. At the 
head was an earthenware vessel in fragments; a bottle lay at the feet. On the 
chest of the skeleton and extending to one side of it lay a small bunch of human 
bones with which no skull was found. Lying above this bunch, but possibly deposi- 
ted for the lower burial also, were a number of objects in line, overlapping each 
other to some extent, as follows: an imperfect flint arrowhead; a chisel wrought 
from a flint pebble; a polished celt of flint, 4 inches in length; two celts of sedi- 
mentary rock, 5.25 inches, and 6.75 inches in length, respectively ; a tool or weapon 
of iron or of steel, about 5 inches in length, badly corroded ; and, together, five 
lance-points and knives of flint, two broken; one leaf-shaped implement of flint, 3.5 
inches long; and a bit of rock-crystal. 
Burial No. 20, a bunch having eleven skulls, including two of adolescents, was 
accompanied with two earthenware vessels. Near а skull, not on each side of it, 
but placed together, were two disks of indurated clay, each about 1.24 inch in 
diameter and .75 inch in thickness. The 
surface of these disks is polished and seems 
in additition to have received a coating of 
some dark material. The periphery of 
each disk shows a slight projection all the 
way round on each side (Fig. 4). Presuma- 
bly these objects were ear-plugs, though the 
projecting parts seem inadequate to have 
Fro. 4.—Ear-plugs of indurated clay. Oak Bend Land- held the ornament in place unless it exactly 
ing, Miss. (Full size.) а У 
fitted the opening in the lobe of the ear. 
Burial No. 26, of the bunched variety, having twenty-five skulls (one of which 
had belonged to an adolescent and four to children), had in association four vessels 
of earthenware, variously placed, and, together, one arrowhead of flint and three 
pebbles. With this burial also was a circular object of indurated clay, 1.3 inches 
in diameter, centrally perforated, concave on both sides. The two faces of this 
object, which perhaps was an ear-plug, are polished. 
Burial No. 28 consisted of a single skull over which was an inverted bowl. 
We have classed this burial among individual ones in the belief that the remainder 
of the skeleton had disappeared through decay or in the great disturbance to which 
the mound had been subjected. Beside the covering bowl stood another vessel, and 
near the skull and just below the rim of the bowl over it were two chisels wrought 
from pebbles of flint. 
A few objects lay in the mound apart from burials. These objects, which 
probably owed their position to disturbance, were: a small celt of diabase ; a chisel 
made from a flint pebble; an ornament 1.25 inch in length, fashioned from the axis 
