SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 583 
was a deposit of cremated remains. This deposit lay upon hard, red clay, evi- 
dently undisturbed soil, but though the depth of the deposit was, as we have said, 
about 2 feet in excess of the supposed height of the mound, no pit was evident, 
though great care was exercised by us to determine the matter. We are inclined 
to think that the deposit of cremated remains had been placed on the level ground 
and a mound about 9.5 feet in height built over it. Later, deposits of soil probably 
filled in around the mound, reducing its height to the extent of about 2 feet. 
The cremated deposit, whose maximum length, breadth, and thickness were 
respectively 43 inches, 28 inches, and 6 inches, was composed of two contiguous 
deposits, each of a different degree of incineration. One of these, somewhat less in 
amount than the other, consisted of cremated human bones in fragments, some 
exceptionally the size of a man’s finger and furnishing complete evidence for 
determination. 
The other and greater deposit was almost exclusively made up of fine particles 
of cremated material, probably human remains in the main, as a few bits of human 
bones were in it. 
Presumably such belongings of the dead as had been selected for interment 
with the remains of the individual (if the burial was that of a single individual, 
which presumably was the case) had been subjected to cremation at the same time 
as the remains. With the deposit of small particles were a few discoidal shell 
beads each about .25 inch in diameter. 
With the large fragments of calcined bones were scattered: other discoidal 
beads; one tubular shell bead; a flat, rectangular bead of shell, about .75 inch in 
length, pierced through its major axis. Also in this deposit were: a considerable 
number of fragments having belonged to several roughly-chipped implements of 
flint (one a fragment of a spearhead, 1.75 inch in length); a small part of an earth- 
enware vessel; a bit of stone belonging to а сей. All the objects from these 
deposits had been subjected to fire. The beads are calcined; the stone had been 
shattered by heat; even the bit of earthenware shows the effect of prolonged 
exposure to flame. 
It was clear that the cremation of the remains had not been performed in the 
place where they were found, since there were no marks of fire there. Further- 
more, though the cremated deposit was carefully searched, missing parts of the 
objects referred to were not found, and these, presumably, were left at the place of 
cremation. 
The remaining two mounds on the Haynes Place are but a few feet apart. 
There is a report that relics were taken from one of them, or from near one of 
them, when material was obtained to make the nearby levee. One of these mounds, 
about 4 feet high at present, is of no particular shape, owing to wear and wash. 
Upon it are a frame house and a small out-house. | 
The other mound, just within the limit of the cultivated field, originally small, 
no doubt, has been plowed over until but a few inches remain above the general level. 
Trial-holes in these mounds were not rewarded. 
