134 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
by him." С. C. Jones describes and figures? this same hatchet, and speaks of the 
finding of another exactly similar in South Carolina. 
Thruston also describes and illustrates? the Jones hatchet, and refers to the 
South Carolina specimen, and to still another, somewhat ruder in form, as coming 
from Arkansas. 
It is interesting in this connection to note the presence of *celts" with stone 
handles in Santo Domingo,“ though these hatchets are much inferior to the speci- 
men from Moundville. 
Fig. 5.—Design on disc from Moundville. (Hal size.) 
The monolithic hatchet from Moundville seems to be much more beautiful than 
the one discovered by Doctor Jones, for it leaves nothing to be desired as to finish, 
and the graceful backward curve of the part of the handle above the blade seems 
more artistic than the form of the corresponding portion of the Jones hatchet, 
which is straight. 
Some years ago Prof. E. A. Smith, State Geologist of Alabama, visited Mound- 
* “Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee," p. 46. 
* * Antiquities of the Southern Indians," p. 280; Plate XII. 
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қ ане: Е ewkes, “Preliminary Report on an Archeological Trip to the West Indies," Smith- 
sonian Miscellaneous Collections, Quarterly Issue, Vol. I, 1904. Plate XX XIX. 
