524 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
one end and partly cut away somewhat obliquely at the other end. With this were 
fragments of at least two slender bone implements and the penis-bone of a raccoon, 
from which the distal end is broken. 
A human lower jaw from this mound, presented by us to the Army Medical 
Museum, Washington, D. C. (catalogue number 14,237), is pronounced by the 
authorities of the museum to show 05/62/25 deformans. 
The area surrounding the mound is covered by alluvial deposit to an extent 
practically precluding all chance of discovering aboriginal cemeteries, if any are 
present. 
Mounp at Sunny Pornt, Bossier PARISH, La. 
This quadrangular mound, about one-quarter mile from the river, on Sunny 
Point, is about 6 feet in height at the present time, though it is apparent that а 
deposit of mud from the river in times of overflow, has considerably lessened the 
original altitude. The basal diameters N. and 5. and E. and W. are respectively 
72 and 93 feet. The diameters of the summit-plateau, in the same directions, are 
32 and 50 feet. This mound was covered with recent graves, and permission to 
dig into it was withheld. 
MOUNDS NEAR PICKETT LANDING, Cappo PARISH, La. 
About two miles in a straight line westwardly from Pickett Landing is the 
plantation of Mr. H. L. Heilperin, of Shreveport, La., on which is a fine group of 
mounds. Near some of these are small ponds whence material for the mounds 
was taken. 
These mounds, seven in all (not taking into account several insignificant rises 
of the ground), form an irregular ellipse, two mounds facing each other ESE. and 
WNW. at a distance of about 615 yards. The transverse diameter of the ellipse 
is 150 yards. On the southern side of the ellipse are two mounds, the remaining 
three being on the northern side. 
These mounds, all but one of which have houses upon them, range between 
2 and 15 feet in height. All probably have been quadrilateral, with flat tops, 
though all but two have been worn and washed by rain to an extent that makes 
the determination of their original shape almost impossible. 
The westernmost mound, which forms one extremity of the ellipse, is fairly 
symmetrical, square, with diameter of base somewhat more than 150 feet and with 
a perfectly flat summit-plateau about 70 feet in diameter. Its sides do not face 
the cardinal points, one being opposite to NNE. 
The other of the two most symmetrical mounds of this group lies eastsouth- 
eastwardly from the one just described and has no intervening mound. It is 
quadrangular, with a flat summit-plateau, and has basal diameters (similar in 
direction to those of the other mound) NNE. and SSW. 160 feet, and WNW. and 
ESE. 220 feet. The summit-plateau in corresponding directions is 90 feet and 
145 feet. The height of this mound is a trifle more than 15 feet. 
