392 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
In shape this mound has every appearance of having been a domiciliary one, 
and our digging in it, which lasted two and one-half days, with seven men, con- 
firmed this view, for while the mound contained many burials in the summit-plateau 
and part-way down the sides, it was evident that these had not been made during 
the building of the mound, but had been sunk from the surface, after its completion. 
The mound was composed largely of raw clay material, some parts of it having 
more sand than others. The graves, none deeper than 3 feet, which was an excep- 
tional depth, had been dug into this material, which had a distinctive color, making 
it easy to define the limits of the graves from the surface down on account of the 
presence in them of the dark village-site material from the outer parts of the mound. 
Presumably, then, a domiciliary mound had been utilized superficially as a place of 
burial. | 
Sixty-five burials came from this mound, of which forty-four were bunched 
burials. Three of these latter were noteworthy in that, instead of having the long- 
bones in layers or in piles horizontally, they were arranged almost vertically in the 
ground. 
The bunched burials, in regard to the number of skulls found with each of 
them, were as follows, the skulls having belonged to adults, when not otherwise 
described : 
Without a skull, 1 
With a single skull, one being of an adolescent and one of a child, 20 
With two skulls, four having each the skull of a child and one that of an 
adolescent, 14 
With three skulls, including the skull of an adolescent, 2 
With five skulls: four adult skulls and one of an adolescent; four adult skulls 
and one of a child; three adult skulls, one of an adolescent, and one of a child, 3 
With six skulls, one being that of a child, 1 
With seven skulls, including one of a child, 1 
With eight skulls, two being of children, 1 
With twelve skulls, including two of children and one of an adolescent, 1 
The remainder of the burials were: 
Adults at full length on the back, 16 
Children, 8 
Recent disturbances, 2 
The bones at this place were badly decayed, none being in a condition for 
preservation. 
In connection with eight burials—five bunched burials and three extended 
ones—bark was present, usually below the burial, but exceptionally, above it. 
Presumably, however, other burials in the mound had been accompanied with bark, 
which had disappeared through decay. 
The only objects, except earthenware vessels, found in the soil apart from 
burials, were a pebble-hammer and a piercing implement of bone. 
Singularly few artifacts, except earthenware, had been placed with burials in 
this mound, A bunched burial which included the bones of a child, had a pebble 
