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Vessel No. 6. — A small bowl of inferior Avare decorated with a sort of meander 

 made up of a number of almost parallel lines rudely incised. In this mound was no 

 check-stamp decoration, though the complicated stamp, one example of which is 

 shown in Fig. 108, was abundantly found. All vessels were of inferior ware and 

 decoration, and all had the basal perforation. Near certain vessels lay sheets of 

 mica. 



Flii. 107. — Vessel No. 2. Moiind A, Laugbton's Bayou. 

 (Full size.) 



Fig. lOS.- 



-Sherd. Mound A, Laughtou's Bayou. 

 (Three-fourths size.) 



No human remains were met with until within a few feet from the center when 

 burials were encountered once to the N. and six times to the NE. and E., all badly 

 decayed, at times traces alone remaining in the sand. Two skulls lay together; 

 one lay alone. One skull had traces of bones in association. 



Mounds near Laughton's Bayou, Washington County. Mound B. 



This mound, in hammock land, on the eastern side of the creek which enters 

 the bayou at its head (mound A was on the W. side) was about one-half mile in a 

 SW. direction from the head of the bayou, also on property of the Messrs. Parker. 

 A trench about 5 feet broad had been carried in from the western margin to the 

 center of the mound, previous to our visit. The mound, which was 7 feet high and 

 43 feet in basal diameter, was entirely dug through by us with the exception of the 

 former trench and a small part of the mound bordering it. 



The inevitable deposit of sherds and broken vessels was encountered at the 

 extreme verge of the eastern slope, but in less numbers than was usually the case. 

 The full complement of fragments of not over ten or twelve vessels were found, but 

 none was recovered entire. These vessels, which were of inferior ware and decora- 



