586 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
line. Presumably, the grave was made prior to the building of the mound, which 
probably was erected to commemorate the triple interment. | | | 
As in the case of the mound at the Haley Place, already described in this 
report, burials had been made in the body of this commemorative mound. за: 
Burials Nos. 3 and 5, а child and an adult respectively, lay side by side 2.5 
feet below the surface of the mound. No pit was apparent, though it is quite pos- 
sible that at this depth there was one which was not distinguishable. 
Burial No. 6 lay in a pit 8.5 feet in length and slightly less than 5 feet in width 
at each end. This pit, which was not traceable above the base-line, was plainly 
apparent cutting through it and extending about 6 inches below it, the base-line in 
the part of the mound where this burial lay being 4 feet 4 inches down. No doubt 
a pit had been made in the mound (since a grave from the surface would be deeper 
than 6 inches), but as water was oozing through the side of the mound when this 
last burial was encountered, delimitation of a pit in the wet sand was impossible. 
As the artifacts found with the three deepest burials were recovered from mud 
and water, sometimes 2 feet in depth, a statement of their exact positions in respect 
to the skeletons could hardly be expected, though where most of the objects had 
been placed was determined, we believe, with the exception of the pottery that lay 
apart from the skeletons and seemed to have been placed in the grave for the 
burials in common. 
With the burials were eighteen earthenware vessels, nearly all badly broken. 
Burial No. 1 had at each side of the head an ear-ornament, blunt pins of shell, 
each 4.25 inches in length, the heads directed forward. Adjoining the head of each 
is a shallow, encircling groove, doubtless to accommodate the lobe of the ear. 
At the right wrist of this burial were a number of small strips of shell, like 
those found at the Haley Place, with the exception that those from the Haley 
Place are undecorated, while these have faint line-work upon them, which once 
probably formed part of the decoration on some larger object, since it is not complete 
on the strips. 
At the outer side of the left thigh was a shell drinking-cup wrought from a 
conch (Кирит perversum) from which a circular part containing the spire of the 
shell evidently had been accidentally broken out. To repair the cup, which no 
doubt was of value so far from the Gulf of Mexico, whence the shells were brought, 
a circular part containing the spire had been cut from another conch in such way 
as to make the part larger than the orifice in the broken shell. Presumably the 
shell from which this part was cut was intended for a purpose other than the 
making of a cup, in which case the part containing the spire would not be needed. 
Next, four equidistant holes had been made in the broken shell surrounding the 
missing part and four corresponding perforations had been drilled in the portion 
intended for repair. Doubtless, then, this portion had been placed above the 
missing part and lashed on with cord, sinew, or strips of hide, and the marginal 
parts of the addition coated with material to render the junction water-proof, prob- 
ably gum, since no asphalt was present. The shell cup showing the circular 
