SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 567 
vation evidently had considerably spread. Тһе surface of the field showed in places 
bits of flint, pebbles, fragments of pottery, and in one instance, parts of a human 
skull were found. Several arrowheads also were picked up on the surface. The 
field is clay, probably a river deposit, under which is sand with some clay 
intermingled. 
The four rises of the ground were all carefully investigated and, in addition, 
a number of places in the field were dug into, which, though level, had scattered 
over them debris which invited investigation. Also a low mound to the SW. of the 
great mound was carefully dug through. The only place where our search was 
rewarded was in one of the rises, which was of little appreciable height,—perhaps 
one foot in some places and less in others,—and had no determinable boundaries. 
A space in it, located as nearly centrally as we could judge, having a diameter of 
about 50 feet, was carefully investigated and five burials were found in it, ranging 
in depth between 1 foot and 2 feet 6 inches. 
Three of these burials were of adults extended on the back, and one probably 
‘was an aboriginal disturbance. This last burial consisted of the skull of an adult 
with the lower jaw, and in the neighborhood were two other mandibles. Somewhat 
farther in and deeper was another skull. 
Burial No. 2, that of an adult, had been disturbed by the digging of a grave 
for Burial No. 1 and thereby had lost the skull. The remainder of the skeleton 
was intact. Near the upper end of the skeleton were two skulls of adults, in frag- 
ments. One of these skulls probably belonged to the skeleton. 
Burial No. 5, that of an adult, had an additional skull lying near it. 
Of the three extended skeletons, one headed north and the skulls of two were 
directed toward the south. All the skeletal remains in this mound were too much 
decayed for preservation. 
With the exception of a decaying columella of a marine shell, which lay near 
one of the skeletons, nothing except pottery remained with them, but of this each 
had an ample allowance. 
Thirty-five vessels, most of them broken, and many scattered fragments of 
earthenware came from this little mound, two of the vessels being found apart from 
burials, 
Some of the vessels were interestingly placed. Burial No. 1, adult, had at the 
inner side of the left foot and leg, and extending over the right foot and leg, a 
group of seven vessels, six upright, one inverted. At the outer side of the right 
forearm was another vessel, and still another at the right elbow. The slight sepa- 
ration of the legs of this skeleton to permit the placing of vessels between them, 
was an interesting feature. 
Burial No. 3, a child, had grouped over the head, six vessels, the head being 
centrally beneath them. 
The earthenware from the Battle Place (with the exception of the cooking 
vessels) is of excellent quality, thin and some of it polished. The vessels are sym- 
metrical, and nearly all, even the cooking pots, bear much incised decoration, 
