SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 533 
was filled no doubt were broken to some extent and were ground to pieces when 
the mass of earth above them commenced to settle. Among these were many cook- 
ing vessels, some large, one of which is shown in Plate XXXIX. Also with these 
vessels was a huge bottle, similar to others from the Haley Place, 17.7 inches in 
height, the neck, however, being only 3.5 inches high. 
The ten arrowpoints noted as present with this burial are of black flint, slen- 
der, and each about 1.5 inch in length. They lay parallel in a little heap, their 
points in one direction—at least in all probability they did so, though determina- 
tion as to all was not possible, as one or two were disarranged by a blow from a 
point of a pick, which also caused the loss of a considerable part of one of the arrow- 
heads. An interesting feature connected with these little points is that the shanks 
of seven of them have small projections on two opposite sides. Of the remaining 
three arrowheads one is without the projections, one was interred with the shank 
broken, and one is that described as having been broken by the pick. А selection 
from this deposit is shown in Fig. 26. 
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Етс. 26.—Arrowheads of flint. Haley Place, Ark. (Full size.) 
The two interesting, chisel-shaped, ceremonial axes found with this burial are 
of a rare class which we have figured and described! before and notably as coming 
from a mound on White river, Ark. Axes of this shape are sometimes found show- 
ing plainly the mark left by the grip of the handle. This mark is about two-thirds 
back from the cutting edge and shows the object to have been helved like an axe 
and not hafted like a chisel. The two specimens found with Burial No. 2 in this 
mound show no mark of rough usage and unquestionably were designed for cere- 
monial use. 
BURIAL NUMBER 3. 
The pit containing Burial No. 3 was 7.5 feet deep, if dug from the surface, as 
presumably it had been. Its limits were not exactly defined by us, it having been 
cut into by another grave. 
The burial consisted of a skull, and then, at some distance from it, a femur 
out of position, two tibiæ, and fibula and full complement of foot bones, all correctly 
1 Mrd of the St. Francis, White, and Black rivers, Arkansas,” p. 345. Journ. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. of Phila., Vol. XIV. 
