Certain mounds of Arkansas and of Mississippi. Part I. Mounds and cemeteries of the lower Arkansas River. Part II. Mounds of the lower Yazoo and lower Sunflower Rivers, Mississippi. Part III. The Blum Mounds, Mississippi

Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield) Moore

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• Mississippi
• Antiquities
• Mound (disambiguation)
• Arkansas

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Certain Mounds of Arkansas and of
Mississippi
IPart
Mounds and Cemeteries of the Lower
RiverArkansas
IIPart
of the Lower Yazoo and LowerMounds
Sunflower Rivers, Mississippi
IIIPart
The Blum Mounds, Mississippi
BY
MOORE.CLARENCE B.
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from of the of Naturalthe Journal AcademyReprint
Volume XIIISciences of Philadelphia,
PHILADELPHIA
P C. 53-55 N. ?TH ST.STOCKHAUSEN, PRINTER,WRITINGS ON ARCHEOLOGY.
BY B.CLARENCE MOOKE.
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Certain Mounds of Arkansas and of Doctor Hrdlicka sMississippi (including paper
on the Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., 1908. Vol. XIII.Crania).
inabout 120 illustrations text, coloredQuarto, eightpages. Maps, plates.PART I
LOWERAND CEMETERIES OF THEMOUNDS
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PART I.
LOWER ARKANSAS RIVEH.MOUNDS AM* CKMKTKRIES OF THE
on Ya/.oo and Sunilower riversWhen it became evident that our the|iie,st
notin the latter of this wasin the State of (described part report),Mississippi
the Arkansas river.destined to we turned tosucceed,
theThis river we as far as Natural miles aboveinvestigated twentyup Steps,
to theof Little Arkansas, a distance of 194 milesRock, water,by accordingcity
made and the river inGovernment This however, was long ago,survey. survey,
has shortened its therefore.recent its across bends, course;cutting wayyears, by
us was considerablv less than the figures civen.the distance sone over bvo */i/
menon this work, in our Hat-bottomed steamer, with thirteenThe time spent
andto and four to was ofincluding parts Februarydig supervise, fifty-six days,
and all of 1908.March,April,
in find the exact locations ofOur custom to send advance to mounds,agents
in on the Arkansas river.had not been followed the case of those
With the of the Menard mound, and the so-called Toltec groupexception
mouth and Natbelow Little the mounds on the Arkansas river between itsRock,
.areural of the river with which this has toreport do), insignificantSteps (that part
in while as to the location of which ain number and size
; cemeteries,aboriginal
be were far from numerous. The river is itsclue could had, changingconstantly
and mounds and no donbt, have been in thecourse, cemeteries, swept awaymany
or have been left far inland.past
8When the first of the French of this visited theMarquette, explorers region,
not far from the Arkansas River, in he found them Indian167o,aborigines cooking
*
corn in earthen made." have we arelarge also,"pots very curiously They
1 four on the Rivers.White and LaGrueIncluding days
2 who have notB. F. Historical Collections of Part II, 295. To thoseFrench, Louisiana, p.
" "
to the in Collections ofaccess French s the Historical Louisiana,"original >ecoroer<es,"Margry
inedited 1>. F. will be of interest. The fiveFrench, 1846, 1850, 1851,by parts appeared, respectively,
"
"The must in mind that the Collections contain andbear1852,1853. reader, however, misprints
ofand that in Fart I is the fictitious account Father amistranslations, incorporated by Hennepin jour
him down the the the mendacious friar neverto whichGulf, accomplished.ney by Mississippi journey
"A second series edited B. F. Historical Collections of Louisiana and twoFlorida,"by French,
in "Collections."one one in thesevolumes, 1869, 1875,published complete
61 JOURN. A. X. S. PHI VOL. XIII.LA.,ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI.482 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF
use for different The mentold, baked earthen whichlarge plates, they purposes.
andnaked and wear their hair short. their noses and wearears,go They pierce
mof beads in them."rings glass
found beads of andAt site us wereinvestigated }>y glass objectsnearly every
reader is of contact between the andof brass sure as the aware,signs, aborigines
white men.
Human remains found us the Arkansas river were soalong usually badlyby
as to be worthless for scientific investigation.decayed
and were sent us to theA number of wereskulls, however, preserved by
at D. C.United States National Museum Washington,
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has sent us an and oncomplete reportkindly interesting
of sthese which follows this of our the seasonskulls, (Part descriptionportion Ij
work.
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was found us of the of aAt one certain evidenceGreer,place, by presence
disease which affects the this evidence marked in thebones,specific being strongly
case of a of whose bones were involved.skeleton,single many principal seriously
We attach but little to this of diseased bones,discovery however,importance
as with reasonable be classed as ainasmuch Greer cannot, certainty, pre-Columbian
It is true that no such as iron or weresite. artifacts, brass, lead,European glass,
found there and that the beads with one burial haveus;by copper (present only)
F. native withbeen shown the of Dr. H. Keller to be pure copper onlyby analysis
from the smelted oresa trace of hence far thaniron, product sulphidepurer any
in indeed could be at the time.of could have been ortimes,Europe early present
as almost does not determine theirStill, nothing except pottery (which period)
had been with the burials at Greer and as the native found
; beads,placed copper
anin but a cannot be as more than indication and as all;instance, regardedsingle
us on the Arkansas river as weother sites of were,investigated byimportance
the of contact betweenhave said, post-Columbian, question Europeansdistinctly
the makers of the at Greer must be considered an one.and cemetery open
In the of but little save earthenware with the dead in theartifacts,way lay
the lower theArkansas, aboriginal mourners,graves along seemingly, having
considered their alone.by depositing potteryduty fully performed
the in theVessels were not with dead,always present though great majority
of cases were so sometimes ofte