550 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
in any way, but their annular margins are neatly rounded when the pipe is com- 
plete. Ав we have noted, however, some pipes were found having instead of a 
smoothed end for the mouth, a rough, broken surface. Such pipes were sometimes 
found apart from any fragments, and, as we have already had occasion to point out 
in this report, it is evident that the aborigines who formerly inhabited the Haley 
Place site, continued the use of pipes after parts of the stems had been broken off. 
As we all know, the same thing is sometimes done under like circumstances at the 
present time. 
In a number of cases, pipes from the Haley Place, from which parts of the stems 
have been broken, show more or less careful chipping around the margins of the 
breaks, doubtless to make the broken surfaces more convenient for further service. 
Many of the bowls of these pipes from the Haley Place contain coatings of 
carbonized material, while, on the other hand, a considerable number evidently 
never have been used. 
We believe this form of pipe to be new in connection with the aborigines. At 
all events an aboriginal pipe of earthenware, all of one piece, nearly 23 inches in 
length, is something unheard of before. 
We are unable to give the number of vessels represented by the masses of 
fragmentary and mingled sherds found during our investigation of this interesting 
mound, or even to form an estimate which would in any way approach the exact 
number. Ав we have seen, the vessels in most instances had been placed in de- 
posits together, and when the earth above them commenced to settle, they were 
ground to fragments and the fragments were mingled. Never before in all our 
mound investigation have we seen such wreckage of earthenware. The vessels 
from this place, in consequence, were not numbered as they were removed from the 
ground, as it has been our invariable custom to do before, but the more interesting 
ones have been arbitrarily numbered since the reunion of their parts—which reunion 
was in some instances a formidable task. 
While many interesting vessels came from this place, there are many others 
bearing almost no decoration, three encircling lines below the neck having been 
considered sufficient decoration for most of the bottles, while many bowls, though 
of good ware, bear but little ornamentation. Many cooking vessels also were found, 
the decoration of most of which, while abundant, offers but little variety. 
We shall now consider some of the more interesting vessels from this place. 
Vessel No. 1. (Burial No. 2.) This bottle (Plate XXXVII), in the combina- 
tion of its coloring, white (probably kaolin) and black which is hardly more than a 
stain, and of the designs of its decoration—crosses, circles, many-pointed stars—is 
totally dissimilar from any vessels from Arkansas we have seen or of which we have 
heard. Presumably it is an importation from southeastern Missouri, some bottles 
from which region it greatly resembles. A depression surrounds the union of the 
neck with the body. 
Vessel No. 14. (Burial No. 2.) This bottle (Fig. 40) bears incised decoration 
which can be more clearly seen in the illustration than described by us. The line- 
work has been filled in with red. 
