508 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
In the shallower parts of the mound trial-holes were sunk without return. 
Centrally in the mound was dug out a space 10 feet square, which included the 
removal of the stump before referred to, and resulted in the finding of a single 
burial under where the stump had been. This burial, that of an adult extended 
on the back, the head directed toward the north, lay 2 feet 7 inches from the 
surface, the measurement being taken to the upper parts of the skeleton. No object 
of any kind was in association. 
Seemingly the burial lay on the original surface of the soil, or had been placed 
a few inches below it. Determination as to this was difficult, however, as the per- 
colation of water into the hole where the skeleton lay greatly interfered with the 
work. One thing was certain: the burial had not been made in a grave dug 
through any part of the mound, as the light-yellow clay of which the mound was 
` made was undisturbed above the skeleton. 
Various holes dug from what seemed to be the base of the mound gave no 
indication of any pit or pits extending beneath it. 
In parts of the mound, distant from the burial, were found: a rough arrow- 
head of flint; a flint drill, or possibly an arrow-head, 2.75 inches in length, and 
somewhat less than .5 inch in maximum width, made from a flint pebble, the 
original surface of which is still apparent in places. 
MOUND on THE Lacrorx PLACE, RAPIDES PARISH, LA. 
In an open field, about four hundred yards from the landing on the Lacroix 
Place, of which Mr. John L. Lacroix, of Alexandria, La., is the owner, is a mound, 
circular in basal outline, 6 feet in height and 62 feet in diameter. 
This mound, which had every appearance of having been dug into to a great 
extent previous to our coming (probably by seekers after treasure), is in the main 
made up of bright yellow clay with admixture of sand. In the central part of the 
mound, however, the material has a much darker appearance, and there two trial- 
holes came upon fragments of human bones, greatly scattered. Presumably these 
skeletal remains, taken out by previous diggers, had been returned in partial filling 
of the holes. 
A number of other trial-holes put down by us were in the yellow soil to which 
reference has been made, and unearthed neither bone nor artifact. 
On the surface of the field surrounding the mound were a few fragments of 
flint, but no other signs of a dwelling-site were apparent. 
MOUND NEAR COLFAX, GRANT PARISH, La. 
On property belonging to Mrs. C. P. Calhoun, of Colfax, about 100 feet south 
from the township road running eastward from Colfax (which is about 2.5 miles 
distant), is a small mound on a ridge. In the body of the mound had been dug out 
previous to our coming, presumably by seekers after treasure, a hole 20 feet in 
diameter. The height of the remaining part, which evidently had been increased 
