CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 145 
Near Vessel No. 1 were Vessel No. 2 (a small, undecorated water-bottle with 
wide mouth), and a discoidal stone 1 inch in diameter. 
Near the skull of a child, whose skeleton lay at full length on the back, was 
Vessel Хо. 3, a bowl with semiglobular body and flaring 
rim, undecorated save for a notched margin (Fig. 13). 
Besides the usual midden debris there were in the 
soll, apart from human remains, a human head and the 
head of a fish, imitated in earthenware, which had formed 
parts of vessels; a rough arrowhead or knife, of chert; six 
dises made from potsherds, one very neatly rounded ; and 
an interesting representation of a human hand, done in 
hard and polished earthenware, having two holes for sus- Fra. 14. Pendant of ear 
rthen 
E. . ware, des ЕЕ t of Mound 
pension (Fig. 14). B. (Full s 
Мосхр C. 
Mound С, overlooking the river, an irregular pentagon in horizontal section, 
has а basal circumference of about 485 feet while the circumference of its summit 
plateau is 295 feet. As the mound is on a decided slope, near land seemingly arti- 
ficially depressed, and is bordered by a ravine on one side, the height is difficult to 
determine, varying locally between 9 feet and 20 feet, approximately. 
Twenty-one trial-holes were sunk in the summit plateau, in some of which we 
came upon human remains almost at once. 
In one hole, 4 feet down, was a bunched burial. 
In another hole, 2 feet from the surface, was a single skull with a bunch of 
bones badly decayed and crushed. With these bones were a small quantity of mica 
and Vessel No. 1--а water-bottle painted red, with decoration in cream-colored 
paint (Fig. 15). Half of the decoration, which is similar to the other half, is shown 
in diagram in Fig. 16. This water-bottle proved to be the only vessel with painted 
decoration found by us at Moundville. Near it was Vessel No. 2 in fragments. 
This vessel, a cup, since put together, has a rather rude, incised decoration shown 
in Fig. 17. Іп the same hole, 3 feet distant, were small fragments of human bone 
and bits of pottery. 
From other excavations came the usual hones, pebble-hammers, and bits of 
pottery, and two shells. 
While digging the trial-holes it was noticed that no human remains were dis- 
covered in the southern half of the plateau, and that the soil of almost the entire 
northern half of the plateau was МасКепей with admixture of organie matter. 
With these facts in mind, we determined to dig superficially that part of the plateau 
"which seemed to promise favorable results, but first it was decided to get some idea 
as to the body of the mound by an excavation of considerable size. Consequently 
an excavation 24 feet square, near the central part of the plateau, was carried to a 
depth of 16.5 feet, or 1 foot below previously undisturbed ground, where the ехса- 
vation had converged to dimensions of 14 feet by 16 feet. А small hole, carried 
