SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 389 
of feet. In fact a house built upon the mound, resting on supports, has beneath it 
a part of the mound about 2 feet higher than the rest of its surface which has been 
washed and worn away while the portion under the house has been protected. Іп 
Fig. 13 is shown this house under which may be seen the ground rising as described. 
Within a few feet of this mound is the third one, having а circular base about 
95 feet across. The height is 7.5 feet. Our digging in this mound was not rewarded. 
Ета. 13.—House on mound at Shadyside Landing, Miss., showing part of mound under the house, protected from wash of 
rain, and illustrating the erosion to which mounds sometimes are subjected. 
A short distance in a northwesterly direction from the mound nearest the 
river is a small, flat rise in the ground, on which were some fragments of pottery 
and other debris. This area was fairly riddled with our trial-holes, which showed 
that burials had been put down from a higher level, but that most of them were 
near the surface owing to the amount of material which had been ploughed and 
washed from that part of the site. 
There were found here fifteen burials, as follows : 
Adults at full length on the back, including two adolescents — 15 
Adult, aboriginal disturbance 1 
Bunched burial, consisting of the сє. of three adulte 
and of one adolescent 
With the bunched burial were the тЫ. remains of a anal earthenware 
vessel. 
