SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 595 
From the Foster Place, with other objects, came a small amount of material 
resembling asphalt, as to which Doctor Keller writes as follows: | 
“The little black pieces marked ‘Asphalt? Burial No. 2, Foster Place, Ark.’ 
are an asphalt-like material which differs from true asphaltum in that it is hot 
soluble in liquids like ether, carbon disulphide, and turpentine, and in that it does 
not melt on heating. It gives a pure brown powder on grinding, and leaves a per- 
fectly white ash on burning. This ash, which constitutes about 10 per cent. of the 
substance, consists almost entirely of lime and magnesia, containing traces of phos- 
phoric acid." 
Four flint pebbles, each about 1.5 inch in major diameter, all slightly chipped, 
lay together with a burial. 
With separate burials were three small, chisel-shaped, ceremonial axes, on 
one of which the mark where the handle was is plainly visible. These little axes, 
of slate, of silicious rock, of shale, are respectively, 4.2 inches, 3.8 inches, 3.3 inches, 
in length. 
Ета. 86.—Shell cup.- Foster Place, Ark. (Length 5.1 inches.) 
Several piercing implements of bone, all badly decayed, were found singly with 
burials, as was a deposit of slender, bone pins somewhat similar to those to be 
described later in the account of this place, which, however, are 1n a much better 
condition. 
