540 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Twenty-two inches from the lower end of the left-hand wall was а cooking-pot 
and a broken mussel-shell which probably, when whole, had served as a spoon. 
In the left-hand lower corner was a mass of material identified by Doctor Keller 
as impure clay with brown organic matter, on which were two small, imperforate, 
flat, semicircular objects of shell, and a little beyond, a diamond-shaped object of 
shell, about 1.5 inch in length, having a perforation. 
A bowl had been placed in an erect position in the right-hand lower corner of 
the grave, and a little farther along the right-hand wall was a mass of material 
similar to the one described, lying alongside of a bowl. 
BuRIAL NUMBER 7. 
The pit containing this burial, like others in the mound, could be traced into 
the upper few feet. It extended through the dark basal layer below to a total depth 
of 15.5 feet, if we assume that it commenced at the surface of the summit-plateau. 
The upper and lower ends of the grave were 4.5 feet and 4 feet 1 inch, respect- 
ively. The grave, however, widened somewhat in the middle, where it was about 
5 feet across. The right-hand side of the grave was 7 feet 7 inches in length, and 
the opposite side, 7 feet 10 inches. 
Burial No. 7 was the skeleton of a powerfully built adult in the prime of life, 
doubtless a male. The skeleton lay at full length on the back, the head directed 
S. by E. The skull was crushed and the other bones were in friable fragments. 
At the left of the skull, one upon the other, were remnants of two shell disks, 
one having two perforations near the upper margin, the other having lost through 
decay the corresponding part where perforations might be expected. There were 
no objects on the opposite side of the head. As these disks are not perforated 
centrally, they can hardly have been ear-ornaments. 
At the neck were fifteen pearls, some nearly .5 inch in diameter and all large. 
With these, about 3 inches apart, were two imitations in shell of canine teeth of 
large carnivores, each about 3 inches in length, perforated for suspension. These 
ornaments were on the upper part of the thorax and probably were pendants at 
each side of the string of pearls. 
At the right wrist were seven beads of shell, each about one inch in diameter. 
Parallel with the upper part of the right thigh, at the right side of the pelvis, 
and over the right hand, lay a quartz crystal about 8.5 inches in length and 2.25 
inches in diameter. Near this was a small disk of shell, covering part of one side 
of which is a boss of wood, much decayed. The shell below the wood has a green 
stain as through infiltration of carbonate of copper. 
At the outer side of the right femur, just above the knee, was a vessel in frag- 
ments, and near it were two curious little objects of shell, one about an inch in 
length, the other somewhat smaller, resembling flat pins with circular heads. With 
these, and probably having belonged on the head of one of them, was a minute boss 
of sheet-copper. 
At the right knee was a neat little chisel wrought from a pebble of flint and, 
