534 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
placed. The distance between the skull, which was that of an adult, and the heads 
of the tibia, was but 2 feet 7 inches, a distance insufficient for the intervening 
bones in order if the burial originally was extended. Presumably there had been 
some disturbance of the skeleton, though we did not succeed 
in tracing its cause with certainty, as the grave-pit which 
we have described as cutting into that of Burial No. 3, did 
not directly interfere with the skeleton. However, if the 
grave of the interfering burial (No. 4) was dug soon after 
that of No. 3 had been filled, it is possible that loose soil 
filling the pit of Burial No. 3 may have caved out with some 
of the bones of that burial. If this happened (and we are 
by no means convinced that it did) the diggers of the grave 
of Burial No. 4 must have returned a pottery deposit to its 
place and also the bones of the legs and feet without dis- 
turbing their connection by ligaments. 
Across the forehead of the cranium of Burial No. 3 were 
a number of implements of bone, with the articular parts 
remaining. These implements were badly decayed. 
To the right of the forehead lay a small sandstone hone. 
To the right of the skull were two disks of shell, undec- 
orated and imperforate, each about 2.5 inches in diameter, 
and six small ornaments of the class so often found in this 
mound, cut from the body whorl of marine univalves, oblong 
and of kindred shapes, imperforate and undecorated, from 
1 to 3 inches in length. 
To the left of the cranium lay a large mussel-shell 
(Unto) in fragments. 
Back of the skull were the remains of an object of bone, 
which probably had been a hair-pin (Fig. 27). 
At the feet was a confusion of crushed pottery vessels, 
an earthenware pipe, and part of another pipe in fragments. 
Somewhat farther along were four unbroken vessels. 
Near the left foot was a pile of ten slender arrowpoints 
of flint, of different shapes, three serrated as to the lower 
parts of the blades. These projectile points were slightly 
disturbed in removal, but seemingly they lay parallel, with 
the points all in the same direction. 
Two feet beyond the foot bones lay a handsome, flat 
hatchet of basanite, 5 inches in length, with the marks of 
Fra. 27.—Bone pin. Haley Place, the handle plainly apparent upon it. Under this hatchet 
Ark. (Full size) was part of the stem belonging to a pipe in the pottery 
deposit already described. 
Near the right-hand wall of the pit, about one foot from the femur, were ten 
