SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 623 
Burial No. 8 was a full-length skeleton of an adult, very badly decayed, the 
head directed SSE. The skeleton lay at a depth of 4 feet in material that gave no 
satisfactory evidence as to having been dug and filled in. 
Mounp D. 
This mound, entirely of sand, had lost portions by the work of a previous 
digger who had used a scoop drawn by horses. There is an irregular remainder, 
50 feet by 30 feet in diameter and 6 feet high. This altitude probably represents 
the height of the mound previous to the flood, as it is not likely the water rose 
above this seemingly central part of the mound. 
Trial-holes were sunk all over the remainder of the mound and also were 
put down in numbers in parts from which much had been washed away, in the 
hope of coming upon burials that were too deep to have been affected by the wash. 
In point of fact such burials were found. 
Five burials, Nos. 9 to 13, inclusive, were encountered in this mound, the 
maximum depth being 5 feet. 
Burial No. 9. This burial, represented only by the crowns of teeth, was 
associated with four vessels of earthenware, one of which contained a mass of white 
and of red clay mingled. This mass did not cover the lower part of the vessel as 
is usually the case when pigment is found in vessels in the mounds, but seemed to 
have been molded into shape before its deposit. The dimensions of the mass were 
5.5 inches by 4 inches by 1.75 inch. Just outside the opening of the containing 
vessel, which lay on its side, was a mass of similar material, of like size and shape. 
Burial No. 10. А deposit of cremated remains 14 inches by 5 inches in 
extent. Calcined fragments were found of a size to show that the bones had 
belonged to the skeleton of an adult. 
Burial No. 11. This burial, consisting of two skulls about one foot apart, had 
no other bones, nor were any artifacts present. The skulls lay near the surface in 
a part of the mound that had been subjected to wash, and perhaps had been dis- 
lodged by the water and again covered with a deposit of sand. About one foot 
from one of the skulls was a slender arrowhead of flint. 
Burial No. 12. The remnants of a skeleton heading SSE. Тһе ribs had entirely 
disappeared, as had many other parts. Near the left side of the skull were nine 
delicate arrowheads of flint whose arrangement was not determined owing to 
disturbance in removal. 
Burial No. 13 had been a skeleton, presumably, though no other bones were 
found with the cranium, near which were two flint arrowheads and an earthenware 
vessel. 
T'wo vessels were found apart from human remains. 
The seven vessels from Mound D (Nos. 26 to 32, inclusive) were of a coarse, 
heavy ware, and almost without decoration. Most of them were badly broken. 
