SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 575 
it when removed from the soil. At the outer side of the middle of the right femur 
were some decaying bones of a small fish. At the upper part of the left femur was 
a badly-broken vessel, and a cooking-pot had been placed at the lower part of the 
same bone. Beneath this vessel was another in fragments. A small vessel lay 
between the knees, and a vessel badly crushed was at the left tibia. At the outer 
side of the right ankle was a bowl having the head of a bird, rudely represented, 
rising perpendicularly from the margin, and a conventional tail on the opposite 
side—a poor example of a type common in regions to the eastward. Also at the 
right ankle, and extending to the foot, were a small bottle and a rude kitchen ves- 
sel. At the inner side of the middle of the left femur, a mussel-shell (Unto ћудг- 
anus) had been placed. 
The vessels from the two burials in this mound (Nos. 1 to 16, inclusive) present 
no striking feature. The decoration, except in the case of kitchen vessels, is trailed 
rather than incised. 
The remaining mound at this place was 3.5 feet in height, though the stump 
of a tree upon it showed the mound had lost at least one foot in altitude in recent 
times, presumably by wash of rain after the clayey sand, of which the mound was 
composed, had been loosened by cultivation. The base, which was irregularly 
circular, was 70 feet in diameter. | 
This mound, like its neighbor, was so filled with trial-holes by us, some of 
which extended into one another, that it is hardly likely that any burial in it 
remained undiscovered. Two burials were found near together in the central part 
of the mound. 
Burial No. 3, the skeleton of an adult, probably male, extended on the back, 
the head pointing S., lay at a depth of 3 feet 8 inches. We were unable to trace a 
pit from the surface down, but the lower 16 inches of the grave had been filled in 
with mixed material and evidently to that extent, at least, the burial had been let 
into the mound. 
At the outer side of the right humerus was a vessel which, like one similarl y 
placed at the left humerus, was badly crushed. At the right forearm was a bottle, 
and at the left wrist were some bones which Prof. F. A. Lucas has determined as 
having belonged to a lynx, probably Lynx rufus floridanus. А bowl had been 
placed in an inverted position at the outer side of the upper part of the right thigh, 
and at the upper part of the left tibia lay a vessel crushed to fragments. 
Burial No. 4. This burial was the skeleton of an adult, probably male, lying 
at full length on the back, the head directed $.' 
The bones were well preserved, practically all belonging to both skeletons being 
in a condition to save. The bone of the left thigh of this skeleton showed an inter- 
esting fracture at about the middle part, with union of overlapping ends, shortening 
the bone about one inch, judging by comparison with the bone of the other thigh. 
This skeleton had at the left of the skull, a bottle, and at the left of the pelvis, 
1 The heads of both burials in this mound pointed between В. and $, by E., one-half point from 
due south, to be exact. 
