CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 175 
With the skeleton of a child, cut off below the pelvis, doubtless an aboriginal 
disturbance, was a mussel-shell (Zampszlzs rectus), much worn at one end as if by 
use. 
From 2 to 5 feet below the surface, covering a considerable area, was a deposit 
of bones, including eleven skulls. With this deposit, at its southern margin, were 
Vessels Nos. 1 and 2,—a small, undecorated water-bottle of coarse material, and a 
small bowl with rude, incised-line decoration below the rim, having an upright 
head, seemingly that of a dog, looking inward. Farther along in this deposit were 
three vessels (Nos. 10, 11 and 12), which will be described in their proper order. 
With a burial represented by crowns of teeth alone was an ornament of badly 
corroded sheet-copper, and a water-bottle (Vessel No. 3), with incised decoration 
consisting of the open hand with the open eye upon it, six times repeated. The 
neck of this bottle was not recovered. 
In a pit was a skeleton at full length on its back, having shell beads near the 
head and at one wrist. Crushed to fragments, near this skull, was Vessel No. 4, a 
bowl of black ware that has since been put together (Fig. 62), having upon it an 
engraved design representing three human skulls, one inverted, with three human 
hands alternating with them, two pointing downward, one upward. On each hand 
is the open eye (Fig. 65). Ап especially curious feature in respect to the skulls is 
that the articular part of the lower jaw, or possibly the whole ramus, is represented 
as projecting beyond the base of the skull. Later in this report we shall have 
something farther to say on this point. 
In the same pit was another skeleton lying at full length, face downward, 
having a sheet-copper ear-plug and shell beads near the skull. On a clavicle was 
the lower part of what was probably а sheet-copper pendant with a repoussé eye 
upon it, somewhat similar to those found in Mound Н at Moundville. 
About three feet from the surface was a skeleton at full length on the back, 
having at the legs Vessel No. 5, crushed flat. This vessel, pieced together (Fig. 
64), shows an incised decoration consisting of fingers and conventionalized bodies 
with a tail of a bird projecting from each side. In the soil about 6 inches above 
the pelvis of the same skeleton was a dise of metamorphic gneiss, 10.25 inches in- 
diameter, in an upright position, having a scalloped margin and two concentric 
circles incised below it on one side (Fig. 65). The customary paint was present. 
The position of this dise seemed to indicate that it had been thrown back after an 
