502 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
In the restricted area in question and near it, fifteen trial-holes came upon 
human remains in seven places, two of which only were worked out, it being 
impossible, under any circumstances, to obtain an accurate idea of what the site 
had been, as it had suffered so greatly from long cultivation and from wash of rain. 
The black soil was found to be about 5 inches in depth, when undisturbed, 
yellow clay was reached. Burials had been made in pits extending into the clay, 
the distance from the surface at which they were found probably conveying but 
little idea of their original depth. 
Fig, 8.— Vessel of earthenware. Johnson Place, La. (Diam. 5.6 inches.) 
The first pit investigated was about 10 feet by 7 feet, and 30 inches deep. It 
contained five skeletons,—four of adults, one of an adolescent,—all extended on 
the back and all heading W. by S., or rather the heads of all had been directed in 
that way. The skull of one burial was missing. Three of these skeletons lay 
directly on the bottom of the grave, near together, while two lay almost immedi- 
ately above them. 
At the right of the skull of one of the adult skeletons was a pebble. Also 
near the skull was a bowl in fragments, and of somewhat better ware than is the 
average from this region, but inferior to much found farther up Red river. This 
vessel has a trailed decoration, as shown in F ig. 8. 
There was also in this pit part of a skeleton in order, the remainder of which 
had been disturbed or had not held together when the burial was transferred from 
