SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 521 
Partly surrounded by the flint deposit was Vessel No. 3, a bottle. 
The final deposit along the wall consisted of six points of flint between 2.75 
inches and 5.75 inches in length and having no uniformity of direction as to the 
points (Fig. 21). i 
As we have said, Gahagan (see map) is much farther up on Red river than аге 
the other Louisiana sites in which pottery was met with by us. The earthenware 
from Gahagan is of very different quality from that found by us in sites farther 
down the river, that from Gahagan being hard, black, and with a surface having 
considerable polish, which readily lent itself to incised decoration. 
As noted, but three vessels came from the interesting mound at Gahagan, but 
all three are distinctive of the place, bearing decoration, profuse in two instances, 
consisting of series of extremely fine, parallel lines, very closely placed, in combi- 
nation withspaces partly cut through 
the ware. Red pigment has been in 
the lines and in the excised spaces. 
Vessel No. 1. А graceful vase 
with flat bottom, the body first ex- 
panding and then constricted toward 
the rim. The decoration is made 
up of series of diagonal and circular 
lines in connection with spaces of the 
kind already described (Fig. 22). 
Vessel No. 2. A wide-mouthed 
bottle with flat base, undecorated as 
to the body, but having around the 
neck a series of lines, some diagonal, 
some vertical, in connection with the 
excised spaces found on the pottery 
from this place. Height, 5.1 inches. 
Vessel No. 3. А bottle, with 
tapering neck and base almost flat 
(Fig. 25), having by way of decora- 
tion designs similar to those des- 
cribed as on Vessel No. 1. 
Various holes sunk by us from the bottom of the grave and in parts of the 
peak outside the grave came upon the dark layer which we have described as 
marking the surface before the mound was built. Trial-holes in the shallow parts 
of the mound came upon it also, consequently, so far as our knowledge extends, 
no pit below the base of the mound is present; but to determine this matter 
definitely and to learn if any other burials are in the mound, its demolition would 
be necessary. 
Fic. 22.—Vessel No. 1. Gahagan, La. (Height 4.9 inches.) 
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