428 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
tion was made long ago, and as exaet data did not aceompany the pottery, it would 
be difficult to determine the origin of any particular vessel in it. 
On the Bradley Place, about one-half mile from the water, are four mounds 
near together, one in the form of a ridge. These mounds, the Wampanocka group, 
the highest of which is about 20 feet, were without history of discovery of any 
kind of aboriginal relics, we were told. Some have been used in recent times for 
burial purposes. Moreover, as these mounds would be a place of refuge in event 
of the breaking of the levee (in which one of them is incorporated), no digging into 
them was attempted. Presumably, like other large mounds of this region, these 
were built for domiciliary purposes. 
The cultivated portion of the Bradley Place, at the present writing, consists of 
a comparatively small part lying between the mounds and the water, and a vast 
field around the mounds and extending for several miles inland. 
On parts of the territory between the mounds and the river, and on the east- 
ern end of the great field (near the mounds, and farther back in the more or less 
immediate vicinity of the remains of a mound not associated with the group), as 
well as comparatively near the western extremity of the great cultivated tract, are 
ancient dwelling-sites, all more or less following the course of Wampanocka bayou. 
On these sites lay many relics of aboriginal life and death—bits of pottery ; arrow- 
heads, flakes, pebbles, chisels, etc., of flint; and numerous fragments of human 
bones. 
All these sites have been for years most industriously prodded by the rods of 
colored men resident on the place and by those of visiting “ pot-hunters," one of 
whom is known to have remained at the plantation for a considerable length of 
time. | 
АП these sites also were carefully gone over by us with the aid of rods and of 
trial-holes, but while many burials were encountered, the fact that a marked pro- 
portion of them had been dug down to and deprived of accompanying artifacts, 
considerably impaired the scientific value of our results. 
Ten and one-half days, with eight men to dig, were devoted to this place. The 
investigation resulted in the discovery of one hundred and eighty-one burials, none 
more than 42 inches in depth, as follows :? 
Adults, 154 
Adolescents, 6 
Infants and children, 40 
The forms of burial of the one hundred and forty adults and adolescents, less 
eight disturbances, aboriginal or recent, were: 
Extended on the back, 117 
. At full length, face down, 7 
Extended on the right side, 1 
Partly flexed on the left side, 3 
To be particularly described, 4 
! With the exception of one burial, particulars as to which are not in our field notes. 
