SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 537 
On the skull of the upper skeleton were fragments of shell. These could not 
have belonged to a large bead of the kind found on some of the skulls in this mound 
as they were flat, and perhaps came from a mussel-shell broken by decay. 
At the left side of the skull was а shell disk, covering part of which on one 
side were the remains of a boss of sheet-copper, evidently an ear-ornament, like 
others found at this place. The mate to this ornament was not discovered on the 
opposite side of the head, though probably it had been there and had disappeared 
through decay, as the one found was in a very friable condition. 
About 15 inches to the left of the head was a bowl, in the bottom of which 
was a material found a number of times at this place and identified by Doctor Keller 
as being impure clay with brown organic matter. 
About one foot to the left of the left shoulder was a bottle, badly broken but 
in part held together by the material in which it lay. Leaning against the lower 
part of this vessel was a fresh-water shell (Unio plicatus), centrally perforated for 
the insertion of a handle—a hoe. 
At the right elbow was a bottle, crushed, as was nearly all the pottery with this 
burial. Near it was a minute fragment of sheet-copper. At the left wrist were two 
shell beads and parts of a badly decayed bone implement. The beads, which were 
of different sizes, were much affected by decay, and presumably other beads origin- 
ally present with those found had disappeared. 
At the right thigh lay fragments of an earthenware vessel, and beside the right 
ankle were small pebbles, evidently all that remained of a rattle. At the feet was 
a mass of gray material—impure clay. 
In the right upper corner lay a large deposit of pottery—perhaps a dozen ves- 
sels, though this is hardly more than a guess—lying crushed into fragments in the 
hard clay. Vessels had been placed side by side and when crushed their parts had 
mingled. Examination of some of the larger fragments showed the vessels to be 
without decoration or, when possessing it, to have as a rule only a few 
rude, encircling lines around the upper parts. Three bottles unusually 
large were in the deposit. The remains of these, crushed into many 
scores of fragments and almost inextricably mingled, were preserved 
by us, but have not been put together as they are practically without 
decoration and present no novelty in form." Much smaller vessels, 
incidentally it may be said, when thus broken and mingled, require 
many days of careful work to restore. With these vessels had been 
one containing impure clay with brown organic matter. 
The pottery in this grave, which presumably was placed there for 
Fre. 28.—Arrow- the burials in common, included a large cooking vessel which contained 
head of flint. Ha- . . 
ley Place, Ark. an arrowhead of flint (Fig. 28). 
B curan Above this pottery deposit, in the clay, together, were two flat 
objects of shell of elliptical outline and a triangular section of shell, with rounded 
apex, each about 2 inches in length. These objects are of the class which we have 
! А bottle similar to these, 17.7 inches in height, is described in connection with Burial No. 2. 
68 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XIV. 
