SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 491 
A bunched burial extending under the base of the mound had one skull, so far 
as investigated. 
No skulls or other bones having belonged to children were noted among the 
bunched burials, probably owing to the crushed condition of the bunches and to 
the state of decay already described. 
Burial No. 30, a bunched burial with twenty-eight skulls, extended for a con- 
siderable distance into the mound and lay in a pit about 3 feet in depth and an 
equal distance in width. At its maximum (it tapered considerably toward the 
extremities) the burial consisted of skulls and various other bones (the long-bones 
placed parallel longitudinally) to a depth of 1.5 foot along the bottom of the trench. 
In the earth above this mass numerous single bones were scattered in all directions. 
It has seldom been our fortune to investigate a mound in which remains of 
the dead were accompanied by so few artifacts. 
Burial No. 1, a bunched burial, had an interesting little arrowhead of flint, of 
most unusual shape (Fig. 1), unfortunately with a part missing. 
Burial No. 14, which lay closely flexed on the right side, had a 
biconcave, discoidal stone of sandstone, 2.3 inches in diameter. 
Burial No. 18, a skull, perhaps all that was left of a disturbance, 
had on one side two flint pebbles and on the other side a spherical 
pebble about the size of a child’s fist—perhaps a hammer-stone, 
though no abrasions are present upon it. 
Burial No. 30, the large bunched burial already described, had 
Fie. of mw a mass of red oxide of iron, doubtless pigment. 
Le (Fall де Burial No. 41, a skeleton partly flexed on the right side, had at 
the neck a tooth of an alligator. No midden refuse lay near this 
burial to account for the presence of the tooth in a way other than its former use 
as ап ornament. The proximal part of the tooth, in which a perforation for sus- 
pension would be, is absent through decay. 
Apart from human remains there came from the mound: four barbed arrow- 
heads of flint, of medium size, found together; two diminutive arrowheads, also 
barbed, lying apart; two flat pebbles and various scattered fragments of earthen- 
ware. These sherds, found singly, and presumably introduced by accident in the 
making of the mound, were, as a rule, of fair quality, hard, and tempered with 
small fragments of pottery. None showed any trace of color and nearly all were 
without decoration of any kind. One small fragment of excellent ware, however, 
showed more ambitious effort than did the rest, the margin of the vessel to which 
it belonged having been decorated with small, angular projections bearing short, 
trailed lines. 
Careful inspection and a small amount of digging to test the composition 
of the soil failed to disclose any sign of an aboriginal cemetery in the vicinity 
of the mound. 
