SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 545 
In the corner adjacent to the left foot and extending along the side wasa 
deposit of pottery, badly crushed and mingled, in which could be distinguished the 
remains of a large, black bottle which had stood upright in a red pot with conspicu- 
ous handles, shown in Plate XLI. In one of the vessels was a mass of yellow 
material that evidently had been used as a pigment and which Doctor Keller has 
determined to be impure, ferruginous clay. 
Under this pottery deposit lay a small heap consisting of ten arrowheads of 
flint of various colors, all barbed and all pointing in the same direction. 
About 2 feet from the outside of the left knee of the skeleton, immediately in 
the pottery deposit under description, which extended along the left side of the 
grave, was a pipe. This pipe, of limestone, 3.25 inches in length, is an effigy of a 
human figure on all fours, to use a homely expression. The legs are clearly shown 
in relief, while the arms, undefined, merge into a single support. The most remark- 
able feature of this pipe, and one which none of a number of experts consulted on 
the subject has been able definitely to explain, is that a third leg in relief, but much 
smaller than is each of the other two, is seen in the rear of the figure, just below 
the orifice made for the reception of the stem. 
From appearances one might be led to believe that a representation of child- 
birth with prolapse of a leg was intended. If, however, such was the case, either 
the incised lines which the small leg has on the ankle, in common with the larger 
ones, were intended simply to define the ankle, or else the aboriginal artist, per- 
haps in a desire to enhance the ornamental effect, put beads upon the leg of the 
child, as well as upon those of the adult, ignoring or not considering the natural 
requirements of the case, 
This interesting pipe is shown in three positions in Figs. 34, 35, 36. 
Carbonized material in the bowl proves the pipe to have been in use. On the 
base of the pipe has been incised, with a fine point, a design of some kind, perhaps 
a rude representation of a human figure, but, apparently through wear, the figure 
is too faint to determine with exactitude. 
On the left side of the pit, 4 inches beyond where the pottery deposit ended, 
was a pile of sixteen arrowheads, all but one having the points directed down the 
left side of the grave. These arrowheads, all barbed, are of flint of various colors; 
some had been deposited with parts missing through breakage. 
At both ankles were barrel-shaped beads of shell, each about one inch in 
length: eighteen at the right ankle, nineteen at the left ankle. 
Two shell beads came from the left knee. 
At the outer side of the upper part of the right femur lay a quartz crystal 7 
inches in length, the point directed toward the knee of the skeleton. Beautiful 
crystals of quartz are numerous in the region near the Hot Springs, Ark. 
Also near the right thigh were the fragments of what had been a large cooking 
pot of earthenware. 
Near the middle of the left thigh were six arrowheads of flint of different colors, 
all barbed, one serrated. These projectile points were disturbed in removal so that 
their original position in the grave is not known. 
69 JOURN. А. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XIV. 
