594 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Other vessels held, in two or three instances, clay of a degraded white, pigment 
no doubt; and several times, also in vessels, was found green pigment which Doctor 
Keller describes as “a mixture of glauconite and a soft and friable clay, probably 
kaolin. It contains a large proportion of iron in the ferric and ferrous states, and 
a little potash. The outer crust is oxidized and shows some red spots of ferric 
oxide.” 
As detailed in our description of individual vessels from this place, a consid- 
erable number were found here smeared over with green pigment, not in connection 
with the decoration, since the green coating was often found over vessels already 
decorated with pigment or otherwise, but placed as a coating as if done in fulfilment 
of some ceremonial rite of mourning. Much of this coating was removed when the 
vessels were washed, but on a number of them, usually bottles, a considerable 
amount of the glauconite pigment still adheres. 
Four small earthenware pipes came from the Foster Place, one of which is 
shown in Fig. 84. This pipe resembles one, figured in this report, which came 
from the McClure Place, on which is, presumably, 
the extension present on a class of “monitor” pipes, 
so called, but in these instances pressed up against 
the bowl instead of projecting horizontally below it. 
The projection shown on the pipe from the McClure 
Place is square at the end, like some found in the 
mound on the Haley Place, while that on this pipe 
from the Foster Place is pointed, as are the projections 
on other pipes from the Haley Place. oO etr К 
Another pipe from this place has the same 
pointed extension turned up against the bowl, and in this case this part is less 
broad than it is on the pipe just described, and resembles more closely the pointed 
projections seen on some of the pipes from the Haley Place. 
A third pipe from the Foster Place has a mere indication of the upturned pro- 
jection, which is a still more conventionalized treatment of the projection. This 
pipe, also, has the peculiar “shoulder” against which the stem of the pipe abutted, 
as described and shown in our account of the pipe found at the McClure Place. 
The fourth pipe from this place was badly crushed and much of it 
was missing. 
We have referred to the fact that no arrowheads lay with the midden 
debris on the surface at this place. But few were found with Ше burials— 
three in one deposit, two singly, all of flint. One of the single arrowheads 
is shown in Fig. 85. 
s- In one deposit were four masses of kaolin (which the reader will 
of flint, Fos- recall is a white clay used as pigment by the aborigines), each somewhat 
Ark. (Fui smaller than a closed hand. Of this material Doctor Keller writes: “This 
specimen is almost pure kaolin of the variety known as lithomarge. The 
bulk of it is pure white, but it shows veins of red ferruginous clay, both at the top 
and bottom.” 
