506 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
erania and a complement of other bones. On the bottom of the grave was red 
pigment. 
Burial No. 4 was a skeleton at length on the back from the feet to the pelvis, 
where it had been cut away by another grave. А mixture of bones, having four 
сгапіа, lay with this part of a burial. 
Burial No. 7 was the skeleton of an adult, extended on the back, accompanied 
by bones including twenty crania. Near one skull was a small arrowhead of flint, 
and a projectile point of the same material was with other bones, as was a small 
quantity of red pigment (hematite). Lying transversely between the left forearm 
and the body was one of the most gracefully wrought celts it has been our fortune 
to see, the cutting edge, the body, and the rounded extremity being very symmet- 
rical. The material is quartzite; the length, 3 inches. At the middle of the 
inner side of the left tibia, together, were sixteen pebbles, some about the size of 
the end of one’s finger, some smaller. | 
Burial No. 8 had twenty-eight crania lying with quantities of other bones. At 
the verge of the deposit, somewhat separated, were four vessels of earthenware and 
various fragments of pottery. Two of these vessels are diminutive pots with scanty 
line-decoration; one is a bowl of about one quart capacity, having an attempt at a 
uniform coating of red on the outside (which, however, took effect in places only), 
and with four encircling, parallel, incised lines below the rim. 
The fourth vessel is a small bowl (Fig. 11), having on the inside a fairly good 
Ета. 11.—Vessel No. 4. Laborde Place, La. (Diam. 4.5 inches.) 
coating of red pigment. On the outside, however, the pigment appears irregularly 
at places, its absence in part being due, not to wear, but to the fact that the pig- 
ment was unskilfully applied and failed to adhere. This bowl bears an incised, 
scroll decoration. Incidentally it may be noted that in the lower Mississippi 
region (south of the Arkansas river) incised decoration is often found on vessels in 
connection with the use of pigment. On the other hand, in the middle Mississippi 
region, vessels adorned with pigment practically never bear incised decoration. 
