SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 631 
having а head representing а celt let into a handle. This handsome specimen is 
shown in Fig. 128. The head of another pin (Fig. 129) unfortunately has lost the 
extremities of two expanding arms which doubtless represented some ceremonial 
implement. These pointed implements of bone, for some reason, have withstood 
the heat better than did the human skeletal remains. 
Lying on top of the deposit of ashes were two ear-plugs of shell badly broken 
by heat, though the complement of parts was together. These ear-plugs are annular 
and of the kind around the periphery of which is a groove enabling the ornament, 
as it were, to button into the lobe of the ear. 
Inverted and pressed down into the heap of ashes and filled with the material 
was a bowl of about one pint capacity (Fig. 130), somewhat crushed but having all 
the parts in place. 
Under the clay, at the edge of the ash deposit, were twenty-eight delicate 
arrowheads of flint, many serrated. Most of these points, which range between .8 
inch and 1.25 inch in length, are shown in Fig. 131. They were not arranged in a 
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Fig. 131.—Arrowheads of flint. Near Jones Place, Ark. (Full size.) 
pile, but lay together within a circumscribed space. Five are imperfect, perhaps 
through the somewhat rough sifting necessary to recover them from the material in 
which they were, or possibly through the effect of heat. 
Under the burnt clay were widely scattered fragments, which, collected and 
put together, proved to be a chisel-shaped ceremonial axe of quartzite, 8.1 inches 
in length. Half of a similar object, also of quartzite, was found in the material 
thrown out from this deposit in the course of digging. 
Around and over the deposit of ashes were fragments belonging to a number 
of earthenware vessels, including several bottles, but presumably all the fragments 
were not present in the neighborhood of the deposit of ashes, since everything taken 
from there by us was carefully sifted without finding sufficient parts to put the 
vessels together. As, however, parts of the same vessel often were separated by a 
considerable distance, it is possible that fragments of vessels not found lay farther 
out in the mound than our digging extended. 
