402 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
complete skeletons present, and it is doubtful if such determination were possible іп 
the badly decayed condition in which the bones were found. 
The bunches, with the number of skulls with each (the skulls being of adults 
when not otherwise described), were as follows: 
Bunches without skulls, 6 
Bunches with one skull each, 9 
Bunches with two skulls each, a one bunch having one skull of a 
child, 11 
Bunches with three skulls each, including one bunch with a child’s skull, 6 
Bunches with four skulls each, including one bunch having a skull of a child, 4 
Bunches with six skulls each, including three skulls of children in one bunch, 2 
Bunch with seven skulls, 1 
The last mentioned burial had about 8 inches above it a few bits of calcined 
human remains. 
On the surface of this site were no entire artifacts, and in the soil, apart from 
burials (with the exception of pottery) nothing was found save a single chisel 
. wrought from a flint pebble. 
But three burials at this place were accompanied with artifacts other than 
pottery. 
Burial No. 6,a bunch, had in addition to a bottle and two bowls, two long pins 
or piercing implements of bone. 
Burial No. 33, a bunched burial, had near it a flat pebble, oval in outline, 
about 2 inches long and 1.5 inch in maximum diameter. Near the margin of the 
broader part is a perforation for suspension. We have referred to perforated peb- 
bles of this kind in our account of the site at Neblett Landing, in this report. 
Burial No. 48, a bunched burial, had two bottles and some red oxide of iron 
ground for use as pigment. 
Seventy-five earthenware vessels (one of which was apart from human remains) 
came from the site at Avenue, the vessels being with the bunched burials as fre- 
quently as with the single skeletons, though some burials of both classes were with- 
out pottery. Vessels in some instances lay one within the other, and occasionally 
small, inverted bowls covered the openings of bottles. 
As arule, in most sites in the Middle Mississippi region, where pottery is pres- 
ent, and in regions to the southward also, though perhaps to a less extent, mussel- 
shells (Unzo) are often found in vessels, on them, or near them. These shells were 
used as spoons. No such shells were present with any vessel at Avenue. 
The ware from this place is thin, as a rule, and often of the yellow, porous 
kind so adaptable to decoration with pigment. This class of decoration is present 
in seventeen instances on the pottery found at Avenue by us, thirteen being uniform 
coatings of red, while in four cases red appears in connection with white or cream- 
colored paint. 
Many undecorated vessels of this soft, yellow ware, in addition to the painted 
ware, and a few vessels of dark material but ill-fired, were in a friable condition 
