Judging from the beams left, they probably contained a few three-story houses.

However, in either locality most of the mound houses were only one story high, and where second or third stories were indicated, they were never found intact.

In neither place were circular houses observed.

The mounds here were located on a rich, alluvial clay soil.
Here, as on the upper part of the river, the treasures we secured were taken from underneath the floors of the houses, where they had been buried with the dead.

Here, as there, they consisted of beautifully decorated earthenware jars and bowls, some of them in bizarre representations of animal and human forms, besides stone implements, shell beads, pieces of pyrites and turquoise, all being generally unearthed intact.
The things were found alongside of skeletons, which were huddled together in groups of from two to five in one of the corners.