158 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
Incidentally, it may be said that the statement made by Doctor Thomas that the 
famous Etowah plates show European influence, is not now accepted by competent 
judges. 
With a lone skull was a beautiful, little bird arrow-head, of transparent quartz. 
Vessel No. 12, in fragments, was found away from human remains, though in 
all probability bones buried with it had disappeared through decay, or perhaps the 
Fre. 34.—Part of engraved shell. Mound C. (Full size.) 
vessel had been cast aside in an aboriginal disturbance. This vessel, pieced together, 
shows a series of central crosses and a cross-hatch design (Fig. 35). Nearby lay 
a mass of galena (lead sulphide), showing many facets as if worked down for a 
specific purpose (Fig. 36). 
Two burials, one above the other, which had been skeletons at full length, as 
