390 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
A few feet east of the ridge we have described was another or perhaps an ех- 
tension of the mound. The surface of this ridge was covered with fragments of 
pottery, and bits of human bone were plentiful on it. 
This ridge or extension was thoroughly investigated by us, but unfortunately 
it became evident that nearly all the made ground which had formed during abo- 
riginal occupancy had been worked or washed away, as but two burials were found— 
one a bunch having a single adult skull; the other, a burial of the same class with 
ten skulls, three of which had belonged to children, The upper part of this burial 
was visible on the surface, while none of it lay more than one foot deep. 
With the latter burial were three vessels of earthenware: one of medium size, 
having a body with four lobes, without decoration ; another badly crushed, on which 
were two encircling incised lines; a 
third (Fig. 14) having a round open- 
ing and a square, flat base on which 
are a number of concentric, incised 
squares. The body of the vessel has 
incised, encircling lines, containing 
diagonal ones. 
With this burial also were part 
of a small celt of fine-grained sand- 
stone, and, dangerously near the sur- 
face, a fine pipe of limestone (Plate 
X XIX), representing a human figure 
on hands and knees. The pipe lay 
on its side directly beneath the bones, 
which had somewhat disintegrated 
the parts of the pipe in contact with 
them. Both sides of this pipe are 
(Height Е у m UN shown in the plate, the one injured by 
the bones being easily distinguishable. 
On the surface, near this burial, was a small, barbed arrowhead of white flint. 
The barbed type of projectile point was very rarely found by us on the Mississippi 
north of this place, the leaf-shaped point usually being met with. 
Scattered in the soil were found, apart from burials, in the Shadyside Landing 
site: two small, rude celts; a pebble shaped somewhat to resemble a celt; another 
pebble showing a slight amount of workmanship, and grooved at one end to serve 
as a pendant; a pebble probably of igneous rock, with an artificial semi-perforation 
at one end ; part of an antler 5.5 inches in length, squarely severed and with a con- 
siderable hollowing out of the proximal end; a number of small chisels chipped 
from flint pebbles, which differ from chisels of the same material found farther north 
on the river in that these are chipped but not ground at the edges which, more- 
over, are flaring. 
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Етс. 14.—Vesse 
