622 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Along the northeastern part of the deposit of bones were arranged ten earthen- 
ware vessels, one of which contained a mass of kaolin. 
Burial No. 4 was a skull and a number of other bones thrown together without 
order, 3 feet from the surface. 
Burial No. 5, the remains of the skeleton of an adult extended on the back, 
the head directed SE. by S., lay 3.5 feet from the surface. With this burial 
were: six earthenware vessels, one containing kaolin, and a small celt which we 
parted with before determining its material. 
One pottery vessel was found unassociated, as were four others, placed together 
and having with them many pebbles and the decaying remains of a shell (tortoise 
or turtle), seemingly a rattle. Beyond question the bones belonging to a burial 
with which these vessels had been had disappeared through decay. 
The earthenware vessels from this mound (Nos. 1 to 24, inclusive), many of 
which are broken, are of coarser ware than is generally found in this region, and 
the incised decoration, when present, does not reach the standard of that usually 
found along Red river in Arkansas. 
The burials in this mound were comparatively shallow, and in the main the 
soil above them was moist. Three of the burials, moreover, lay in different planes, 
their graves intersecting or intersected, so that with one exception we were unable 
to trace the limits of pits. 
MOUND С. 
This mound has been quadrangular, but previous digging into its sides and 
wash of water have greatly impaired its outlines. Diameters measured in two 
directions were each 127 feet; but the summit-plateau in the same directions, WSW. 
and ENE., NNW. and SSE., is, respectively, 45 feet and 54 feet across. 
Eight trial-holes were sunk from the summit-plateau, some of which were con- 
siderably enlarged. These holes came upon three burials (Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive). 
Burial No. 6, which was 5.5 feet from the surface, consisted of a skull only, the 
rest of the skeleton presumably having disappeared through decay. It was 
impossible to determine if the burial lay in a pit, the ground surrounding it, clayey 
sand, showing no difference between it and the material composing most of the rest 
of the mound. It is certain, however, that a pit did not extend from the surface 
down, as a dark layer, entirely undisturbed at this place, covered that part of the 
surface of the plateau where this burial was found, to a depth of 2 feet. 
At the left of the skull were fragments of Miet зоре and a very small object 
of the same material, elliptical in outline and concavo-convex. This object, with 
others once probably like it but broken when found, perhaps had been attached to 
some kind of head-dress. 
Burial No. 7. This burial, the badly-decayed skeleton of an adult, at full 
length on the back, heading SE., lay at a depth of 4 feet 10 inches. Near the skull 
was a coarse cooking-pot (Vessel No. 25). We could reach no conclusion as to 
whether or not this burial lay in a grave-pit. 
