SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 427 
Tue Моско PLACE, CRITTENDEN County, ARK. 
The Mound Place, believed to be about three miles in a direct line from 
Wyanoka Landing on the Mississippi river, is the property of Mr. D. H. Fox, of 
Memphis, Тепп. Тһе plantation takes its name from a number of mounds here 
and there on the place, variously from 5 to 15 feet in height, all much altered in 
shape by cultivation. 
One day, with eight men to dig, was devoted by us to this place, the work 
being done in some of the mounds and in all the most promising localities on the 
level ground. 
Although fragments of human bone and some broken pottery lay on some of 
the mounds, nothing was found in them by us, the diggers soon passing through a 
stratum of made ground to raw soil beneath, in which burials could not reasonably 
be expected to be found. Presumably much of the ground made by occupancy, 
and all the included burials, had been ploughed away. We were informed that the 
original height of the mounds had been impaired to a considerable extent by culti- 
vation. 
In the level ground, though many trial-holes were dug, but five burials were 
encountered—two of adults, two of children, one of an adolescent. The maximum 
depth was 32 inches. 
With these burials were eight earthenware vessels, four with a single burial. 
On two pots is rude incised decoration consisting of parallel lines; and on a bottle, 
also incised, are partly interlocked scrolls made up of bands filled in with reticulate 
lines. One small bowl, rather neatly made, and having the tail and head of a frog 
modeled on opposite sides (an opening representing the mouth), has an incised deco- 
ration based on the swastika and, in addition, three circles, in two of which are 
scratched four-armed crosses, and in the other, one with eight arms. A bowl has 
four lobes on the body, rather rudely made. 
It was evident from the number of mounds on the Mound Place and from the 
quantity of debris on the level ground that the site at one time had been a large 
one. Presumably long cultivation had carried away all the more superficial burials, 
leaving only a few of the deepest ones. 
_ Tue BRADLEY PLACE, CRITTENDEN COUNTY, ARK. 
The Bradley Place, on the left-hand side going up, of an “old river,” a former 
course of the Mississippi, which passes back of Island No. 40, is said to be eight 
miles above the junction of the two rivers, this union being about ten miles above 
Memphis, though, of course, on the opposite side of the Mississippi. 
The plantation, the property of Messrs. Banks and Danner (Mr. Lem Banks of 
Memphis, whose courtesy to the Academy we have referred to in connection with 
the Kent Place, and Mr. W. 8. Danner, residing on the plantation), has long been 
famous for the discovery of aboriginal pottery in various parts of its great extent. 
It is said that the interesting collection of aboriginal pottery in the Cossitt Library 
at Memphis, came from this place, and doubtless much of it did, but as the collec- 
