CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 173 
which they may have been perhaps had decayed away or may have been disturbed 
by other burials), the following: A small amount of sheet-copper of about the con- 
sistency of moistened bread-crust; other bits of sheet-copper; a small amount of 
sheet-copper in another place; a pipe of very coarse earthenware, rudely made, 
round in horizontal section, with flaring rim (Fig. 59); two roughly made discoidal 
stones and one more neatly rounded; one disc of pottery; а small, roughly made 
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| Trial.holes 
Mound D 
Scale in feet 
19 12 
Fig. 58.— Plan of excavation. Mound D. Ете. 59.— Pipe of earthenware. Mound D. 
( Full size.) 
“сей”; a “сей” of greenstone or kindred rock, with cutting edge at either end, 
and beveled (Fig. 60); a slab of ferruginous sedimentary rock, oval in out- 
line; and a barrel-shaped bead, probably of resin, 1.75 inches in length. Doctor 
Keller, who analyzed part of this bead, found it to be **a resin which, though in 
some respects resembling amber, is not fossilized. The interior is perfectly clear and 
almost colorless. Тһе specific gravity is 1.091; it softens at about 150° C., but 
does not melt until heated to above 300°. It is strongly electrified by friction. 
Unlike amber, it is largely soluble in alcohol and other solvents. Оп burning it 
leaves very little ash, containing oxide of iron." 
In addition to the usual dwelling-site debris, hones, hammers, pitted stones, 
etc., there were present: a small quantity of rather coarse, shell-tempered ware in 
fragments, one sherd having projecting from its rim the head of a frog, rudely rep- 
resented ; three pointed implements of bone and one less pointed, perhaps used in 
basketry; and a bone, kindly identified by Prof. F. A. Lucas, as having belonged to 
a swan. 
Eighteen inches from the surface, with no human bones remaining nearby, 
completely inclosed in decayed wood, was a ceremonial axe of copper, 14.25 inches 
in length, with flaring cutting edge 1.5 inches broad, varying in breadth between 
.5 inch and 1 inch, with a maximum thickness of .4 inch where there is a kind of 
offset made by the hammering of the copper. Part of a wooden handle still adheres 
to the metal (Fig. 61). 
