184 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIV ER. 
The head of a duck (Fig. 77), an ornament belonging to an earthenware vessel, 
lay alone in the soil. 
Fic. 76.—Vessel No. 20. Field north of Mound D. 
(Height 3.4 inches.) 
Fre. 77.—Duck's head of earthenware. Field north of Mound D. 
(Full size 
GROUND бостн or Mounp D. 
Between the cultivated field that borders Mound B on the east and the southern 
side of Mound D is a strip of land covered with small trees, and having a deep 
gully on two sides. This strip, running very nearly north and south, is about 500 
feet long and varies from 75 to 140 feet in width. Nineteen trial-holes, considerably 
larger than those sunk by us in summit plateaus of mounds, were dug in the eastern, 
or higher part of this strip. These holes were about 3 feet deep except where pits 
were encountered, in which event they were correspondingly enlarged and deepened. 
Twenty-five burials, including two skeletons together, were met with. These 
were similar in form to other burials found at Moundville. 
All earthenware found with the dead came from two pits. 
At the head of a skeleton, 20 inches down, was Vessel No. 1, a small, un- 
decorated, wide-mouthed water-bottle; and Vessel No. 2, a handsome pot of polished, 
black ware, with two loop-handles, made in the effigy of a frog (Fig. 78). Else- 
where in this cemetery various fragments were met with which indicated that the 
concept of the frog had been a popular one during the time the burial place was in 
use. With the same skeleton was a small *celt" with one side smooth and the 
other rough, except at the cutting edge. 
Vessel No. 3.—A little toy bowl, representing a tortoise, having the head and 
one flipper missing (Fig. 79), lay near the surface apart from human remains. 
