632 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Possibly the vessels originally had been placed around the body before its 
eremation and. later, when material was collected to pile over the deposit of ashes, 
some parts of the vessels were gathered up with the clay while other parts may 
have been left behind. Lumps of burnt clay were found scattered at considerable 
distances from the deposit of ashes. The arrowheads and the ear-plugs must have 
been placed with the deposit after the cremation, since they were not separated, as 
they would have been had they been swept up with the cremated remains. 
A part of a most unusual object of earthenware was found in four widely sep- 
arated fragments. These fragments, when put together, form the handle of a ladle, 
with a small part of the bowl. This handle, of heavy ware, 14.5 inches in length 
and 1.25 inch in maximum diameter, is hollow, circular in transverse section, and 
tapers to a blunt point. Unfortunately, none of the very many fragments of 
pottery recovered from this mound united with the handle, though the sherd 
belonging to the opposite side of the bowl-part was found, on which is a depression 
indicating that the bowl and handle formed a ladle patterned after a gourd. 
қ j ? T я Fic. 133.—Pipe of earthenware. 
Ето. 132.— Vessel Мо. 2. Near Jones Place, Ark. (Height 1.9 inches.) Near Jones Place, Ark. (Full size.) 
The pottery vessels from this mound, as indicated by their fragments, are 
inferior, and the decoration, when present, was carelessly done. А small cooking- 
vessel from this mound is shown in Fig. 132. Two pipes, however, or rather part 
of a pipe and another in fragments which have since been put together (Fig. 133), 
are of excellent ware. The pipes are similar, each having a polygonal figure in 
relief on the base. 
In this mound we have an interesting example of cremation of human remains 
and of the building of a mound over them. There can be but little question that 
the wigwam was burnt over an area that later formed the central part of the base 
of the mound, but we are unable to determine whether or not the human remains 
were cremated at the same time. It is clear, however, that these remains, where- 
