456 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
chipped flint, 5 inches in length, and at the right femur, erect, edge downward as 
if it had been deposited with.the hand grasping the handle, was a handsome, choco- 
late-colored, ceremonial axe of ferruginous shale (Fig. 64), 6.1 inches in length, and 
2 6 inches in maximum breadth. In this axe isa perforation for attachment, rather 
irregularly made by boring from opposite sides. This type of ceremonial axe, 
oblong in outline, is seldom encountered. One, of lignite, from the St. Francis 
river, Arkansas, is in Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., and two were found by 
us at the Keno Plantation, northern Louisiana, one of sandstone and one of meta- 
morphic rock. | | | 
Burial No. 302, adult, had at the right elbow а small amount of red pigment 
and a chisel wrought from a flat pebble, by sharpening one end. А bowl and a 
bottle lay with this burial. 
FIG. 64.—Ceremonial axe of ferruginous shale. With Burial No. 300, Pecan Point, Ark. (Full size.) 
Burial No. 305, a child, had a small bottle representing a fish, a diminutive 
bowl in the form of a frog, and a bowl having conventional head and tail on oppo- 
site sides, in which were a mussel-shell and a round, flat pebble. 
Burial No. 309, adult, had in addition to a bottle, red paint at the left humerus; 
a gorget of shell made from a triangular section of a conch, without decoration ; 
and а curious object of bone at the left forearm, so badly decayed and broken that 
its former size and shape could not be determined. It seemed, however, to have 
been a receptacle made from part of a large bone, split and hollowed. The thin- 
ness of the walls and the length of the hollowed space seem to discredit the idea 
that the object had served as a handle. 
Burial No. 311, a child, had a bowl, a bottle, and a small, oval, undecorated 
ornament of shell, with two perforations, 
Burial No, 325, adult, had a bowl at the right of the skull and a bottle at the 
right shoulder. On the upper part of the thorax, the broad end under the chin, 
