190 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
ment of a vessel, having five small perforations forming an irregular circle some- 
what below the margin. 
Vessel No. 3, a broad-mouthed water-bottle, lay in small fragments near the 
skull of an extended skeleton. The vessel, pieced together (Fig. 87), bears a series 
of curious symbols. The rosette figures represent the sun, according to Professor 
Holmes! We have also, according to Professor Putnam, an arrow and the sun, 
possibly a winged sun. This symbol bears some resemblance to the oZ/zz of itis 
Mexicans. It pio be quite in keeping to represent an arrow with the sun, the 
arrow representing a ray or dart of the Sun-god, and the sun representing his shield 
as portrayed by our Indians down to the present time. The group of symbols on 
this vessel is shown in diagram in Fig. 88. 
Vessel No. 4, a wide-mouthed water bottle, lay apart from human remains. 
Ғіс. 88.— Vessel No. 3. Decoration. Mound F. (About half size.) 
Pieced together (Fig. 89), the vessel shows four triangular tails of the woodpecker 
with their individual, pointed feathers, two tails pointing upward and two down- 
ward. On each tail is a swastika (Fig. 90), incomplete in two instances. 
Lying apart from where burials were, was a grotesque figurine of earthenware 
(Fig. 91), evidently a toy, with the legs broken off at the junction with the body. 
There is a hump on the back. Two projections on the head probably represent 
copper hair-ornaments; two similar projections have been broken off. 
Vessel No. 5, a small, undecorated pot with flaring rim and two loop-shaped 
handles, lay near fragments of a skull. 
| Op. cit., р. 91. 
“Не ud from pegs where they hung around the room and gave to each Ж Ж Ж a chain- light- 
ing arrow, a sheet-lightning arrow, a sunbeam arrow, a rainbow arrow," Ж Ж Ж, *Navaho Legends," 
Washin кі: Matthew. Memoirs of. the Am. Folklore Soc., Vol. V, p. 111. 
e orb of day is to the Navaho, only the luminous shield of the god, behind which em. 
bearer w ен г rides, invisible to those on earth.” “Тһе Night Chant, a Navaho Ceremony,” Was 
ington Matthews, Memoirs Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., Vol. VI, 
