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With no bones visible nearby were Vessels No. 14a and No. 15, in fragments. 
Each of these is a broad-mouthed water-bottle with a decoration common at Mound- 
ville, having depressions in the body, surrounded by incised scroll-work. 
Forty-five inches below the surface a great shell drinking-cup (Fudgur per- 
versum), 13 inches in length, was found; and inverted over it was Vessel No. 16, 
a bowl with beaded margin, somewhat broken when unearthed. In the shell сир 
was a black substance in which was a splinter of bone, probably remains of food. 
We found similar material in a number of vessels at Moundville. Nearby was a 
well-made “celt” of volcanic stone and a wide-mouthed water-bottle (Vessel No. 
17), in fragments. This vessel (Fig. 39), pieced together, bears on each side an 
incised meander surrounding small, shallow depressions. With this water-bottle 
was a coarse, brown-ware cooking vessel, with two loop-handles (Vessel No. 18). 
FiG.39.— Vessel No. 17. Mound С, (Height 5.9 inches.) 
A broken shell drinking-cup, without decoration, lay apart from bones, so far 
as we could determine. 
About 4 feet below the surface were a few human teeth, probably all that 
remained of an entire skeleton. Beneath the teeth, where the neck had been. 
was part of a pendant of much corroded sheet-copper, similar to one already 
illustrated (Fig. 32), as coming from this mound. At each side of the place where 
the head had been was an ear-plug of ordinary type, consisting of a dise of wood 
with sheet-copper оп the outer side (Fig. 40). Тһе parts which, placed behind 
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