FOWKE] MOUNDS IN ALABAMA 459 
Five feet in, 18 inches up, was the folded skeleton of an infant a 
few months old. 
On the natural surface, 13 feet in, was an extended skeleton, on 
back, head northeast. The femur measured 1634 inches. In the 
pelvis, resting on the lumbar vertebrae, was a reel-shaped, unper- 
forated, copper gorget (pl. 78, 7), the extreme measurements of 
which are 334 and 214 inches. At the left shoulder was a hatchet 
11% inches long. (PI. 80,d.) Under the pelvis was a piece of galena 
about 24 ounces in weight, one face rubbed smooth and nearly flat, 
the angles ground off. A smaller piece, also rubbed, lay near it; and 
seven other pieces, all of them smali, angular fragments, were scat- 
tered irregularly from the pelvis nearly to the left shoulder. The 
skull lay, with the face down, to the south of its proper pesition. No 
teeth could be found, nor any trace of either the upper or the lower 
jaw. A groundhog burrow which passed by the skull probably ac- 
counts for their absence and for the displacement of the skull. 
Thirteen feet in, 314 feet up, was a skeleton so decayed that its 
exact position could not be determined, except that it was folded, 
with head northeast. The teeth were much worn, crowded, over- 
lapping, and several of them were badly decayed. At the shoulder 
was a large pipe of compact steatite (pl. 83. 6), the stem 4 inches 
long, the diameter of the bowl 2% inches at the top. Loose in the 
earth, within a few inches of the pipe, were fragments of a large 
conch shell, and a very small, much corroded, entire one. 
Three feet up, 14 feet in, were bones of a very young child, which 
had been laid on the side, with the head south. Some barrel-shaped 
beads, a number of small ocean-shell beads, and a hatchet 5°4 inches 
long (pl. 80, ¢) were at the head and neck. 
It is remarkable that hatchets such as this and the broken one men- 
tioned above should be buried with infants. They certainly could 
not have been used as implements, and would scarcely have been 
regarded as toys by very young children. They may have been 
placed with the bodies as a sacrifice, or as an expression of grief. 
From 3 to 11 feet in was a grave dug into the subsoil to a total 
depth of about 2 feet. On the bottom of this. extended, on the back, 
was the skeleton of a middle-aged person about 6 feet high, of large, 
even massive frame. The head was to the northeast, or toward the 
center of the mound. At the neck were many shell! beads of two dif- 
ferent types, disk and short cylindrical. On the bottom, on either 
side, toward the lower end of the grave, were all the parts of two 
large spades which had been purposely broken before being deposited. 
SOUTHEAST SECTOR 
Three feet in, a foot from bottom. was a folded adult skeleton, head 
northeast. 
