164 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
Fic. 42.—Gorget of sheet-copper. Mound C. (Full size.) 
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one time owned the great mound wherein he now figures as Burial No. 37, is an 
effigy of a human head (Fig. 46), which lay with the gorgets on the chest and, 
possibly, formed a center-piece to the annular one. This interesting little gem, 
carved from amethyst and perforated behind for attachment, is shown in four posi- 
tions in Fig. 47. 
Aboriginal work in amethyst is uncommon. We found a beautifully made pen- 
dant of amethystine quartz in the rich mound at Crystal river, Florida; and inves- 
tigation under supervision of Mr. Warren K. Moorehead resulted in the discovery 
of a pendant of amethyst, somewhat more rudely made than ours, in southern 
Indiana. 
Mr. George F. Kunz, who is so familiar with gems and hard stones, writes of 
this amethyst head: “The drilling was undoubtedly done by no other agents 
than quartz, either with a stick or a hollow reed; and the sawings by drawing a 
string or a thong across the object, using sand as an abrasive, possibly wet. The 
