SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 495 
consists of four similar designs, each separated by a vertical line in a blank field, 
Each design is made up of incised lines forming a cross within a circle, which circle 
is surrounded by another one, concentric, having radiating from its circumference 
triangles filled in with reticulate lines, save іп опе instance where on one side 
space was wanting. Similar triangles project toward the circles from vertical 
lines which enclose the spaces, and there are also similar angles with apices turned 
toward the neck of the bottle, having as bases a circle surrounding the neck. 
Some of the earthenware from this mound is tempered with small fragments 
of pottery, some with a mixture of minute pebbles and bits of broken stone. A 
few sherds showing the use of red pigment for decoration were present in the soil, 
one fragment having additional decoration in the form of broad, incised lines. 
About seventy-five yards in a northerly direction from the mound just des- 
cribed, on property belonging to Mr. С. P. Voisel, is another mound, slightly more 
than 10 feet in height. Its outline is somewhat irregular, but presumably at one 
time the mound was square, or nearly so, as basal measurements were 114 feet by 
122 feet, which are fairly approximate considering the difficulty of determining 
just where the base of a mound begins. 
As the summit-plateau of this mound had been used for burials in recent times, 
and as cutting into the sides of the mound would not have been justifiable in an 
area subject to overflow, no investigation of this mound was attempted. 
A short distance from these two mounds are the remnants of a low, flat 
mound, most of which had been removed in the construction of the levee. It is 
currently reported that quantities of human bones and much fragmentary pottery 
were removed with the material throughout the work, and, in point of fact, inspec- 
tion showed numerous bits of human bones, and many fragments of pottery, most 
of which, however, were without decoration. 
LOWER MOUND on SALINE POINT, AVOYELLES PARISH, La. 
On Saline Point, in full view from the residence of Mr. Landry Norman, on 
whose property it is situated, is a mound in sight from the river bank. This mound, 
of circular basal outline, with a diameter of 73 feet, is about 11 feet in height. 
The mound was deeply furrowed by wash of rain, and in addition had been 
dug into centrally to a considerable extent previous to our coming. 
As the property of Mr. Norman is subject to overflow in times of unusally high 
water, when the mound becomes a place of refuge, its destruction was not considered. 
In material thrown out by previous digging we found a small earthenware 
pipe of the “monitor” class, having one end missing. | 
Eight trial-holes in the upper part of Ше mound came at once upon raw, уе!- 
low clay, dried hard and containing no indication of previous burials therein. It 
seemed likely that the superficial parts of the mound, probably loosened by tramp- 
