CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 169 
admixture of sand. At the head of the skeleton were two large sherds, one on the 
other, each carefully worked to an elliptical outline. 
Vessel No. 5 lay apparently unassociated with human remains and crushed to 
fragments. After the parts were cemented together the vessel proved to have a 
broad, short handle projecting horizontally from one side. The decoration, rather 
coarsely done, is a variety of scroll in a field of cross-hatch. 
In a pit, where a number of burials were, lay two vessels (Nos, 6 and 7) near 
the lower part of a skeleton, the upper part of which doubtless had been cut away 
in placing a burial at a lower level. Vessel No. 6, a small bowl of inferior, black 
Fic. 53.— Vessel No. 9; Ground NE. of Mound C. (Height 6 inches.) 
22 JOURN. A. N. 8. PHILA., VOL. XIII. 
