SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 407 
Adults, 35 
Adolescents, 2 
Infants and children, 14 
Bunched burials of adults, none exceeding the remains of two, 3 
The thirty-seven adults and adolescents were іп the following positions : 
Extended on the back, 11 
Partly flexed on the right side, 11 
Partly flexed on the left side, 8 
Closely flexed on the right side, 1 
Disturbances, aboriginal and recent, 5 
Burial No. 30 lay extended on the back to the knees, but the legs had been 
flexed against the thighs, bringing the feet to the pelvis. 
Apart from burials there were found in the soil: one small, chipped, cutting 
implement of flint; one flint chisel; one arrowhead of the same material; part of 
an undecorated pipe of earthenware, of ordinary type; another large fragment of 
an earthenware pipe from which the bowl is partly missing, which has had at one 
time an extension іп which has been an orifice of considerable size. In front of the 
bowl of the pipe are two projections like feet which enable the pipe to stand upright 
when placed on a level surface. Such supports (found even on some modern pipes) 
were present on pipes found by us in various sites along the St. Francis river, 
Arkansas. It is interesting to note, also, that pipes of this class were used by the 
aborigines in Argentina,’ and in Mexico.’ 
But little of importance in addition to earthenware had been placed by the 
aborigines with their dead at the Kent Place. We shall describe in detail all 
burials with which artifacts other than earthenware were found, including the 
earthenware discovered with these particular burials. 
Burial No. 4, a child about six years of age, had near the head, a bottle. Near 
this burial, and probably belonging to it, lay a small pebble, part of which had been 
chipped away to give it the form of a ceremonial axe. No perforation, however, is 
present. 
Burial No. 5, a child about seven years of age, had at the neck and on the 
chest, eleven shell beads and an ornament, made from the bone of some fish, having 
a hole artificially made, and apparently trimmed a little on the edges. At the left 
knee was a bottle. | 
Burial No. 6, adult at full length on the back, had at the right elbow a bowl. 
By the legs lay a skull 21 inches long, belonging to a fish of the gar family. 
Burial No. 7, adult partly flexed on the left side, lay with a bottle at the left 
of the skull, and a bowl under the left shoulder. At the neck were four shell beads. 
Burial No. 8, adult, lay partly flexed on the right side, thus bringing the knees 
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1 Professors F. Е. Outes and C. Bruch. “Los Aborigines de la República pri aeri p. 54. 
duard Seler. “Die alten Bewohner der Landschaft Michuacan,” p. 101 etseg. Gesam- 
melte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und Alterthumskunde. Dritter Band, 
