SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
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points, some .5 inch long, some slightly more, near it; a handsome boatstone! of 
diabase, 3.75 inches long, having the usual concavity in the base but without per- 
forations; remnants of two small ornaments of sheet-copper, decayed through and 
through; a cylinder, about 2 inches long and .5 inch in diameter, of decáynig lig- 
neous material which Prof. George B. как Dendrologist of the United Status 
Department of Agriculture, Wasita kindly has determined to have been wood of 
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the elm (Ulmus americana). This last ornament, like similar ones from this mound, 
had been copper-coated but was too badly decayed for preservation as a whole. 
With the exception of the deposit just described, which extended to the skull 
of Burial No. 2 and continued with this burial, and presumably belonged to it, 
‘For other boatstones found west of Mississippi river see our account of the mounds near Chand- 
ler Landing, Prairie Co., Ark. (White river), in which a num 
“A ntiquities of the St. Francis, White and Black rivers,” p. 345, 346, Journ. Acad. Nat 
crystal. 
Sci. of Phila., Vol. XIV. 
A. N. 8. PHILA, VOL. XIV. 
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