500 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Vessel No. 18. А very rude, scaphoid vase, parts of which only were present 
in the mound. Body and flat base are covered with rude, trailed designs. 
Vessel No. 14. А bowl (Fig. 7) of half-fired ware, having a decoration made 
up of four designs of incised and punctate markings, each somewhat resembling 
an arrowhead in shape. 
A rude knife of chert was found apart from the burials. 
If an aboriginal cemetery was near this mound its discovery would be difficult, 
as the territory is subject to overflow and in places is covered by a deposit from 
the river. 
At this place we were given by Mr. Louis Neck, whose place adjoins that of 
Mr. Clavrie, a pendant or charm-stone, of hematite, 3.5 inches in length, having 
the shape of an elongated pear, and grooved near one end for suspension. This 
Ета. 7.—Vessel No. 14. Saline Point, La. (Diam. 3.6 inches.) 
object, Mr. Neck informed us, had been ploughed up on a property belonging to 
him, near the town of Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, about eight miles distant. 
MOUNDS NEAR NORMAN LANDING, AVOYELLES PArIsH, La. 
About three-quarters of a mile SE. by Š. from Norman Landing, on property 
of Mr. F. Saucier, living in the nearby settlement, is a symmetrical mound with 
circular base, the diameter of which is 150 feet, and that of the summit-plateau 20 
feet. The height, determined from what seemed to be the general level, measured 
slightly less than 20 feet, though when the mound is regarded from neighboring 
depressions whence, no doubt, material for its building was taken, the height seems 
considerably greater. 
