CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 167 
GROUND NORTHEAST OF Мосхр С. 
Directly northeast of Mound C is a plot of wooded ground having the mound 
as a base, a deep gully on one side, and the river bluff on the other. 
A certain amount of digging was done in this ground, first near the end 
farthest from the mound, and afterward not far from the base of Mound С. resulting 
in the discovery of thirty burials of the same general form as those we have 
minutely described in the account of Mound С. 
The artifacts found with these burials seemed to indicate that their former 
owners had belonged to a class less prosperous than was represented by remains 
found by us in other places of burial at Moundville. No copper was met with, and 
in many cases cooking pots of coarse ware were used as burial accompaniments. 
Where vessels of other forms were found they were undecorated as a rule, and 
when decoration was present it was often of inferior execution. 
FIG. 49. —Vessel No. 1. Ground NE. of Mound С. FIG. 50.— Vessel No. 3. Ground NE. of Mound С. 
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(Diameter 4.8 inches.) (Diameter 6 inches. 
A skeleton flexed on the right side had mica, and shell beads at each wrist. 
The skulls of two infants lay together without the other bones, which, owing 
to their extremely delicate condition, may have been thrown back unobserved by 
our diggers. Near these skulls were two small pots, Vessels Nos. 1 and 2, of coarse, 
unblackened ware, both having loop-handles,— Vessel No. 1 having had nine 
originally (Fig. 49). 
The skeleton of a child, cut off at the pelvis by aboriginal disturbance, had 
near the head Vessel No. 3,—a pot of coarse, red ware, with two loop-handles 
(Fig. 50). 
A skeleton lying at full length on the back had near the head an undecorated, 
broad-mouthed water-bottle (Vessel No. 4), and a large fragment of another vessel. 
Shell beads were at the neck, the left wrist, and at both ankles. 
In a pit 4 feet below the surface, was the skeleton of an infant, extended on 
the back, surrounded by almost pure clay, while the soil at this place had a large 
