136 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
ville and received as a gift a disc about 12.5 inches in diameter, said to be of sand- 
stone, of the same well-known type! as the one referred to as being in Peabody 
Museum. This type is characterized by marginal notches or scallops usually with 
incised, circular lines on one side below them. The disc obtained by Professor 
Smith, however, like the one in the Peabody Museum, has an interesting incised 
Fig. 7,—Dise of stone from Moundville. (Diameter about 12.5 inches.) 
decoration on the side opposite that bearing the incised circles, in which it differs 
from the ordinary dises of this type. Тһе disc in question has on the reverse side 
an incised design of two horned rattlesnakes knotted, forming a circle? within | 
u, Archæological Collection of the United States National Museum, p. 37 et seq. Also 
Holmes "Arti in Shell,” Second Rep. Bur. Eth., 1880-81, Plate LVII, p. 277 et seq. 
2 Our friend Señor Juan B. Am brosetti, Curator of "Һе National Museum, Buenos Aires, who, it 
may be said, incidentally, has been much im mpressed by certain points of resemblance in the aboriginal 
culture of Argentina ал that of the United States, in his “El Bronce en la Region Calchaqui,” 
Anales useo Nacional de Buenos Aires, Tomo XI (Ser. 3°, t. IV), pp. 286, 287, describes and 
figures idis of bronze, 33} em. in diameter, now in the National Museum of Buenos Aires, around 
the margin of which two serpents form a ci | 
