SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 493 
The condition of the bones іп this mound was such that but few could have 
been saved even under favorable circumstances. As it was, all bones lying in the 
dry part of the mound were subject to breakage on removal. Nevertheless, two 
crania, one without the lower jaw, were saved in good condition. | 
Dr. Ales Hrdlička refers to these skulls in connection with his description of 
the crania from the remarkable mound on the Haley Place, Arkansas, which is 
given at the close of this report. 
Thirty-nine burials were noted by us in this mound, no account having been 
taken of the great quantity of scattered bones to which reference has been made, 
or of a few burials that were not entirely removed from the hard material in which 
they lay. Presumably but a small proportion of the burials in the mound came 
under our observation. 
The burials recovered by us were as follows: 
Adults extended! on the back, 18? 
Children, 6 
Aboriginal disturbances, 5 
Bunched burials, 10 
Of the bunched burials, one had a single skull; one had two skulls; four had 
five skulls ; one, six skulls; one, seven skulls; one, eight skulls; one, eleven skulls. 
One bunched burial with five skulls included one of a child; and two bunched 
burials, one with five skulls and one with six skulls, had each two crania belonging 
to children. 
If the aborigines who dwelt on and buried in this mound habitually placed 
tributes with the dead, most of the mortuary offerings must have been of a perish- 
able character. 
Burial No. 2, that of a child, had at the skull what remained of a mussel-shell ; 
and a large mussel-shell, broken when found, was with burial No. 6, a bunched 
burial. 
Burial No. 9, an extended skeleton, had single mussel-shells in fragments at 
the right of the skull and at the right wrist. As mussel-shells ((/иго) were not 
encountered apart from burials in this mound, it is likely their placing with the 
dead was intentional. 
Burial No. 14, a skeleton at full length, had at the left side of the skull an 
earthenware vessel, badly broken and with parts of the rim missing. This vessel, 
a bottle of rather unusual shape (Fig. 2), has an incised design shown in the illus- 
tration. There has been some restoration of the neck of the vessel, which the 
presence of a part of the neck with rim fully justifies. The ware of this bottle is 
gray, and apparently has undergone imperfect firing, which seems to be character- 
istic of much of the ware of the lower part SE Red river in Louisiana. 
! One had the left ankle crossing the right о 
" Some skeletons, badly decayed, may have кеі to adolescents. 
