180 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
did not have. With the lanceheads found last was a number of beads made by 
grinding down small shells (Алси/оза ¢alniata and Lithasia showalterit). 
The badly decayed skeleton of a child had shell beads at the wrists and at the 
knees. 
Another skeleton had, near the lower part of the trunk, shell ornaments, very 
badly decayed, made from small sections of conch, pierced at one end. At the right 
shoulder, where the wrist of one hand had rested, were shell beads. 
With several burials were small quantities of mica. 
Vessel No. 1.—A shallow basin of 
coarse, shell-tempered ware, undecorated 
save for notches around the margin (Fig. 
67). This vessel lay alone near the sur- 
face, the skeleton to which it belonged 
presumably having been ploughed away. 
Vessels Nos. 2 and 3.—A skeleton 
lying at full length on the back, had on the 
Еіс. 67.— Vessel No. 1. Field north of Mound D. Еіс. 68.— Vessel No. З. Field north of Mound D. 
(Diameter 9.5 inches.) (Height 4 inches.) 
upper part of the thorax a fragment of coarse earthenware, 6 inches by 6 inches, 
approximately. Тһе skull was somewhat elevated. Some inches below it was a 
fragment of pottery of about the same size as the other, and beneath it Vessel No. 
2. a small bowl with notches around the margin. By the side of this bowl, but not 
covered by the pottery fragment, was a small, undecorated water-bottle, Vessel No. 
8 (Fig. 68). 
Vessel No. 4.— Two feet from a skeleton and somewhat below it, standing 
upright on the floor of a shallow pit, was a wide-mouthed water-bottle of black ware, 
having around the body a decoration of depressions and incised lines forming a 
scroll, a popular pattern at Moundville. 
Vessel No. 5.—An undecorated water-bottle of coarse, red ware, found lying at 
the head of a skeleton. Under the skull was a slab of a derivative of trap-rock, 
irregularly oblong, 4 inches in length by 3 inches broad. At the feet were frag- 
ments of sheet-copper and two small, neatly-made discoidal stones. A femur from 
this skeleton, showing pathological condition, was sent to the Army Medical Museum 
at Washington. 
