542 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
In one of the vessels of this deposit was a quantity of the material found in 
many vessels in the mound, consisting of impure clay mixed with brown organic 
matter. 
Above all this deposit, and elsewhere throughout this grave, usually somewhat 
above other objects, were small ornaments of shell—disks, triangles (sometimes 
with rounded apices) and oblong sections, and objects of elliptical outline. These 
ornaments are almost without exception imperforate, though two small disks have 
central holes and several of the other ornaments have on them traces of bitumen, 
showing how they were fastened to other things of a perishable character, to which 
they belonged. It is possible that the small, flat, circular or elliptical objects of 
shell (which usually were found in pairs) may have served as eyes in masks of 
wood. 
Five inches to the right of the right tibia and continuing to the wall on the 
right-hand side, where it extended down to the lower corner, was a deposit made 
Ета. 33.—Arrowheads of flint. Haley Place, Ark. (Full size.) 
up of a number of bones, badly decayed, evidently intended for the manufacture of 
piercing implements. With these lay a slender spearhead of flint, the point un- 
fortunately missing, 5.75 inches in present length. A mussel-shell, badly broken, 
and five vessels, one of which was recovered almost entire, completed the deposit. 
About midway along the left wall was a deposit containing several pottery ves- 
