SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 585 
MOUND С. 
About one-third mile 8. by W. from Mound A, in woods, is another mound 
having a height of but 2 feet 8 inches, yet fairly symmetrical owing to the compar- 
ative steepness of its sides and the extent of its level summit-plateau which is 36 
feet across, while the diameter of the circular base of the mound is but 50 feet. 
This mound has an annular approach (resembling the causeway leading to Mound 
А), its diameter being 41 feet, and the excavated part 23 feet. The height of the 
causeway is about one foot. 
Four trial-holes sunk into the mound reached a basal layer about 2.5 feet from 
the surface. Further digging under prevailing conditions was deemed inadvisable, 
and the mound was left (of course, after the careful filling of the holes), to the 
horses and mules which were approaching it for refuge. 
Mounp D. 
Two hundred yards approximately 5. by W. from Mound C, also in woods, 
was another mound of irregularly-circular outline. Its diameter was 38 feet; its 
height, 2.5 feet. In this mound, which was composed of sand with a slight admix- 
ture of clay, a central excavation 18 feet square first came upon an interesting 
little vessel entirely apart from any other object. This vessel, a bowl, containing 
clay of a degraded white, doubtless used as a pigment, has rudely-executed, trailed 
lines encircling it. Four equidistant projections, which are hollow and contain 
small objects that rattle when shaken, are on the body. Other and more inter- 
esting vessels of this class will be described in our account of the Foster Place, 
somewhat farther up Red river. 
Six burials came from this mound, five of adults, one of a child, each extended 
on the back,’ and all with the heads directed S? 
Burials Nos. 1, 2, and 4 lay together. Burials Nos. 1 and 2, adults, almost 
certainly a male and a female respectively, lay side by side, about one foot apart. 
Burial No. 4, adult, lay in part immediately below Burial No. 1, the feet of Burial 
No. 4 being under the pelvis of the other skeleton, and the upper part of the body 
extending beyond it. The bones of these skeletons were considerably decayed, 
though the skull of Burial No. 1 was preserved, the only one saved from the mound. 
These three burials lay in a pit, the dimensions of which, so nearly as we could 
determine, were: length, 11 feet; width at lower end, or near where the feet of 
the skeletons were, 6 feet; the measurement of the upper end of the pit was pre- 
vented by the caving in of sand. 
The base-line of this mound was come upon at a depth of 5 feet below its 
highest part. This base-line, of irregular thickness, ranging between 2 and 6 inches, 
had been cut through by the pit in which these burials lay and which extended 
about 4 feet below the base-line. No sign of a pit was noticeable above the base- 
! One skeleton had the legs crossed at the ankles, the right over the left. 
* Two skeletons had the heads directed S. by E., the rest almost due S. 
74 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XIV. 
