476 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
Trial-holes, sunk by us in this ground, resulted in the discovery of twenty- 
three burials, some of which had been badly disturbed, while deposits of pottery 
with the skulls of others, which had been discovered by the aid of the sounding- 
rod, had been dug down to and removed. 
Burials were as follows : 
Adults, 10 
Infants and children, 7 
Disturbances, aboriginal and recent, 6 | 
Of the ten adult burials, nine lay extended on the back; one was rather 
closely flexed on the left side with the trunk so turned as to have the face 
directed downward. | x 
Im the soil, apart from burials, but perhaps separated from them through pre- 
vious disturbance, were а celt of igneous rock, pecked on parts intended to enter a 
handle, and an astragalus of a deer, carefully smoothed on some of its sides. 
Burial No. 4, adult, had a bowl at the left of the skull; at the outer side of 
the femur, a bone pin with a head, and a considerable number of very slender 
implements of bone, originally about the size of wooden tooth-picks in use at the 
present time, only much more delicately shaped. Many of these were badly broken, 
but some have since been repaired. Just such a deposit of small, bone implements 
is described by General Thruston! as having been found in an aboriginal cemetery 
in Middle Tennessee. | 
Burial No. 7, a child, was without artifacts with the exception of a large disk 
shaped from a potsherd, which lay near the skull. | 
Burial: Хо. 10, a child, had a pot over the right femur. With this vessel was 
a sphere of pottery about .75 inch in diameter. Similar objects have been found in 
. other parts of Arkansas and in Tennessee. 
Burial No. 12, a child, had two discoidal stones rudely shaped from pebbles 
originally flat, and two astragali of deer which, however, show no sign of workman- 
ship. With this burial also were a bowl and a bottle. 
Burial No. 16, a child, had two pots at the left of the skull, and, on the chest, 
a canine tooth of a bear, perforated at one end for suspension. 
Burial No. 17, adult, had in association a pot over the left humerus; a bottle 
and a bowl at the pelvis; a thin and graceful leaf-shaped implement of flint, 8.6 
inches in length, across the pelvis; and two carefully-made piercing implements of 
bone, each with a hole for suspension at the blunt end. 
Twenty-four vessels were found by us at the Stoftle Place, which, however, 
must be a considerably smaller number than originally had been placed with the 
burials we discovered. These vessels, which are of inferior ware, present no feature 
of especial interest. A small bottle with a band of red and a band of white pig- 
ment around the neck, and alternate upright bands of red and of white around the 
= was the only example of color decoration on the pottery found by us at this 
place. 
1 Gates P. Thruston. “Antiquities of Tennessee,” Second ed., p. 306. 
