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on the lower ends of both lateral margins, and traces of workmanship intended to 
represent a nose and mouth on one flat side. 
At the left side of the pelvis of this burial, where the left hand rested, was a 
ceremonial axe of a silicious conglomerate, of the hoe-shaped class, 4 inches in length 
and 3 inches in maximum breadth of blade. The perforation usually found on 
axes of this kind is absent. The size of this little axe, much smaller than is usual 
with axes of this kind, marks it as a toy and quite in keeping with the age of the 
child to whom it belonged. 
RHODES PLACE, CRITTENDEN COUNTY, ARK. 
The Rhodes Place, formerly the Earle Place, is about one mile directly in from 
Ward Landing and is the property of Judge John F. Rhodes of Marion, Ark. 
On this plantation is a flat-topped mound, washed out of all definite shape, on 
which stands a dwelling. The height of the mound, taken from the road which 
passes it, but which itself is on ground artificially heightened in aboriginal times, 
is 13 feet. On the opposite side, which is lower, the height of the mound is aug- 
mented. Two basal diameters of the irregular base are 200 feet and 160 feet. 
In the neighborhood of this mound are many rises of the ground and low ridges 
on which are evidences of former habitation by the aborigines, It was in these 
places that our digging was done, the exact localities in some cases having been 
indicated by the results of sounding with a steel rod. We were told that much 
work had been done at this place by two persons with whose names we were famil- 
iar in connection with their wholesale search for pottery on the St. Francis river, 
_АтК., and evidence of previous disturbance at the Rhodes Place occasionally was 
apparent. 
The number of burials found by us was sixty-five, as follows: 
Adults, 36 
Adolescents, 2 
Infants and children, 27 | 
The thirty-eight adults and adolescents lay as follows: 
At full length on the back, 35 | 
Рат у flexed on the right side, 1 
Aboriginal disturbances, 2 
The skeleton of one infant also had been disturbed in aboriginal times. 
Included among the extended burials are two, the feet of one of which had 
been plowed away, while the skull of the other had been dug down to and removed 
by a seeker after pottery. 
The reader will note the absence of the bunched burial at this place. The 
bunched burial was not encountered by us on the Mississippi river north of the site 
at Commerce. 
The burials lay at varying depths in the made ground which had grown up 
under aboriginal occupancy, the deepest grave in this ground (which itself varied 
in depth) having been 40 inches. One burial, however, had been dug through the 
