194 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
as belonging to an extended skeleton, had near what was left of the skull, 
beautiful pipe of soapstone, blackened and highly polished (Fig. 95). From the 
general appearance of this pipe and from its decoration of projecting knobs one 
would not refer it to the Moundville region, but consider it rather a Georgia form, 
though in that State similar pipes are of earthenware. С. C. Jones figures one 
from a mound near Macon, and we obtained one on the Georgia coast and another 
in a mound on the bank of the Savannah river. With the burial with which 
the pipe was, was Vessel No. 15, a small, undecorated, broad-mouthed water-bottle 
(Fig. 96). 
At the head of a skeleton was Vessel No. 14, a broad-mouthed water-bottle 
of a well-known southern type (Fig. 97). At the knees of the same skeleton was a 
small, broad-mouthed water-bottle, badly broken. 
A full-length skeleton had a small, undecorated water-bottle (Vessel No. 15) at 
the head (Fig. 98). 
Apart from human remains was a curious little effigy of an owl, rather rudely 
made, standing on four legs (Fig. 99). 
Mounp G. 
Mound 6, the sides of which have been much washed by rain, has а summit 
plateau that measures about 65 feet by 80 feet. "There are no signs of previous cul- 
tivation of the plateau, but ап unimportant trench has been carried in from the 
eastern side, partly across the plateau. Twenty-five trial-holes gave no indication 
of pit, of burial, or of artifact. 
Мосхр Н. 
Mound H, evidently a much smaller mound, originally, than its companions, 
has been ploughed away and dug 
through to such an extent that it is 
no longer possible to conclude as to its 
former height or shape. Тһе height 
of the mound given in our list is per- 
haps misleading, including as it does : 
Fic. 101.—Shell beads. Mound H. (Full size.) 
mass of flattened debris thrown out by 
former diggers. А small part, which 
had escaped former excavators, proved 
Fra. 100.— Vessel No. 3. Mound H. (Diameter 5.5 inches.) of considerable interest. 
