636 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
The third burial (No. 2), the skeleton of an adult at full length on the back, 
lay at a depth of 4 feet, the head directed NW. by N. This burial was without 
accompanying artifacts, a very unusual condition in the case of aboriginal burials 
in this region. 
Burial No. 1 had at the right shoulder a small bottle with a faint, trailed 
decoration on the body and extending over the neck. At the outer side of the left 
humerus was a bowl, and at the outer side of the right femur a small cooking-pot 
carefully decorated with trailed and incised line-work (Fig. 135). 
Near the skull of this burial were: a shell hoe ((/nzo trapezordes) having the 
usual perforation; part of the lower jaw of a deer, such as is described as having 
been used by the Iroquois for scraping maize from Ше cob. There was considerable 
midden-debris with these objects, and their presence near the burial may have been 
accidental. 
Burial No. 3, that of a child, which we have described as an aboriginal dis- 
turbance, had with it four vessels, three badly broken, the fourth an undecorated 
pot without a rim. 
Careful observation failed to distinguish grave-pits in the body of the mound. 
Presumably the mound originally was not so high as our measurement made it, the 
measurement perhaps being taken from a depression. In this event one may sup- 
pose that shallow burials dug from the original surface had a low mound built over 
them. 
A few yards east of the mound just described was an irregular rise in a culti- 
vated field, about 2 feet in height and 50 feet in diameter. This evidently had 
been a dwelling-site, as bits of pottery and fragments of flint were scattered over 
the surface. Considerable digging at this place, however, failed to come upon 
burials, although fire-places were discovered. 
In the cultivated field in sight in an ENE. direction from the two places 
described, itself under cultivation, was a mound, circular in outline, with a basal 
diameter of about 65 feet. Its height was slightly less than 6 feet. 
A central hole 8 feet by 9 feet and with a minimum depth of 6 feet, was car- 
ried to a considerably greater depth in places. The mound proved to be of the 
same material throughout, a yellow-brown mixture of clay and sand, largely sand. 
No indication of grave-pits was noted, nor was bone or artifact encountered. 
Near this mound were two rises of the ground having superficial indications of 
former aboriginal occupancy, though our digging in them yielded no return. 
On the edge of the field, and in sight from the mound last described, was the 
remainder of a mound, originally low, which had been reduced by cultivation, and 
into which a large hole had been dug. Careful digging into this mound was likewise 
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