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represents some quadruped, though the designs which may be intended to indicate 
legs are not regularly placed, possibly, however, through lack of skill in spacing. 
Vessel No. 3. (Burial No. 9.) In Fig. 57 is shown another of the consider- 
able number of cooking-vessels found at this site. 
Vessel No. 10. (Burial No. 9.) This vessel (Plate XLI), coated with red pig- 
ment inside and out, has in addition on the upper part of the body an incised design 
in conjunction with bosses. Large handles add to the general effect of the vessel, 
Ета. 52.—Vessel No. 6. Burial Мо. 6. Haley Place, Ark. (Diam. 9.7 inches.) 
In several respects the mound on the Haley Place is notable, and in one res- 
pect—the depth of some of its grave-pits—is the most remarkable one it has been 
our fortune to investigate. As stated in the Introduction to this report, mounds 
that have been built high above burials are common enough, but the making of 
pits of such depth as were some of those in the mound at the Haley Place, with the 
means at the disposal of the aborigines, must have been a very difficult task, and if 
the earth at the time of their work was as thoroughly dry and hard as we found it 
to be, the difficulty of their achievement must have been greatly increased. 
There is another interesting feature connected with this mound. With the 
exception of one grave that cut slightly into another, there was no interference 
between the graves. One who has had to do with the investigation of aboriginal 
places of burial knows how common an occurrence it is to find grave cutting through 
grave, and one can almost believe, in the absence of this in the mound at the Haley 
Place, that it was not only erected in honor of the occupant of the great pit below 
the mound, but that the burials whose graves were dug through the mound, or 
through parts of it (all probably persons of note, for who ever heard before of such 
numerous deposits with all the burials in a mound?), were made soon after the 
erection of the mound when the reason for its construction was still fresh in the 
minds of men. Not only, as we have said, did the graves not interfere one with 
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