SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 599 
seven pendants - to 3.5 inches in length, all made from columelle of the conch, 
some with rude, line decoration; one small ear-plug of shell; two pendants (Fig. 89) 
and part of another one, of shell, each with perforation through the head for ais 
pension ; a lizard carved from limestone, with a perforation through the neck for 
suspension (Fig. 90). This pendant, on removal, was coated with sheet-copper 
which, however, badly carbonated, has almost entirely flaked from the stone. This 
ornament, when highly polished, before the deterioration of the copper, must have 
been effective indeed. 
On each side of the head of this burial was a pin-shaped ornament of shell, 
5.5 inches in length, one having a perforation through the shank just below the 
head, and both grooved there to accommodate the lobe of the ear (Fig. 91). These 
ornaments, wrought from the columella of the conch, are doubtless of the kind 
described by Du Pratz, which he says were made by the aborigines from the axis 
of a large shell called 2zzgo, the ornament having a head somewhat larger than the 
rest to prevent its slipping through the perforation of the ear. 
Burial No. 10, adult, had on the thorax a superb, double-pointed, leaf-shaped 
blade* of flint, 13.6 inches in length, 2.6 inches in width, and but .3 inch in 
maximum thickness (Fig. 92). 
On this triumph of aboriginal endeavor in stone were piled, parallel, ten double- 
pointed implements, six of fossiliferious chert, four of flint. These implements, which 
range in length between 7 and 8.8 inches, do not proclaim their former use by their 
appearance. Some show polish as by wear. Several are pointed as for piercing; 
while some, on the other hand, have blunt points. One of these latter implements, 
shown in Fig. 93, has an added feature of interest. In its making, the implement 
has been broken, the two parts have been completed, and then marginal notches have 
been made near the broken areas to facilitate the lashing together of the two parts. 
That the breakage did not occur after the completion of the implement is evident from 
the fact that the faces of the two parts at the line of fracture do not correspond. 
With the objects just described were: two shell gorgets, one placed on edge, 
the other lying flat (Figs. 94, 95); a small mass of glauconite (green pigment); a 
mass of red pigment (red oxide of iron). 
Also with Burial No. 10, forming part of the deposit, and lying together at 
that end of it which was nearest the skull, were the two ear-ornaments of limestone, 
shown (after slight restoration) in Fig. 96, where the obverse of one, presenting a 
central boss surrounded by a marginal part sloping outward and upward, and the 
reverse of the other with the part used in fastening through the lobe of the ear, are 
illustrated. These ornaments, each with a maximum diameter of 4.4 inches, have 
been coated with sheet-copper on the obverse sides. Much of this material had 
e workers in stone in aboriginal times. In “The Stone 
Age in North America,” by W. K. Moorehead, Vol. I, Fig. 199, are shown some beautiful “drills ” 
(which we believe to be arrowheads), found by Mr. W. P. Agee, Jr., of Hope, Ark., who writes us that 
these points (more than two hundred of them) were found by himself in a mound in this region, near 
Red river, іп 1906. They were found in one lot, all being placed around the head of a skeleton. They 
range in length between 2 and 4.5 inches. 
* This region seems to have possessed abl 
