SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
By CLARENCE B. Moore. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Red river has its source in extreme northwestern Texas and takes an east- 
erly course, bounded most of the way on the north by the State of Oklahoma and 
on the south by Texas, until southwestern Arkansas is reached, where the river 
continues in the same direction, having Little River county, Arkansas, on the 
north and Bowie county, Texas, on the south. Next, Red river, still pursuing an 
easterly course into Arkansas, has part of Little River county to the north of it 
and Miller county to the south until within a short distance from the town of Ful- 
ton, whence the stream takes a southerly course, having Hempstead and Lafayette 
counties on the east and Miller county on the west, until it enters the State of 
Louisiana. 
In Louisiana, Red river flows in a southerly and then southeasterly direction 
until it joins the Atchafalaya river (locally pronounced Chaf-al-eye-yeh) which 
continues southward, while a continuation of Red river, called Old river! on charts 
prepared by the United States Corps of Engineers, goes a distance of eight miles by 
water eastward to Mississippi river. 
Our investigation, this season, occupied slightly less than five months of the 
latter part of 1911 and the earlier portion of 1912 and covered Red river (and Old 
river) from the junction with Mississippi river to a point 37 miles by water? above 
Fulton, Arkansas, or 519 miles in all, as the river runs. 
As we have explained in previous reports, our archeological investigation is 
conducted from a steamer of light draught, one hundred feet in length, over all, 
which enables us to carry material necessary for the work and an ample force of 
men to attend to it. 
Mr. J. S. Raybon, captain of our steamer, as a rule goes over in advance such 
territory as we have selected for our investigation, ascertaining the exact location 
of mounds and of cemeteries and the names and addresses of the owners of these 
aboriginal sites, so that, later, our work may be carried on without the delay inci- 
dental to search and to correspondence. 
! Presumably in former times what is now called Old river was part of the Mississippi. As Red 
river is now connected with the Mississippi by Old river, this river may be regarded as a continuation 
of Red river, and in fact the junction of Old river with Mississippi river is almost universally spoken 
of as the mouth of Red river. y : 
* Measured miles, as given by charts furnished by the United States Corps of Engineers. 
61% JOURN. A. N. 8. РНША., VOL. XIV. 
