198 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
(Fig. 104). These lay with the bases together, the pointed ends spread in fan- 
shaped fashion as if the bases had been strung together through a perforation in 
each and the points had spread somewhat on the arm. At the left wrist and fore- 
arm were eight beads of shell, each about an inch in diameter, and a quantity of 
spool-shaped beads. At the neck were a number of small shell beads. At each 
side of the head was a wooden ear-plug, copper-coated, the part belonging behind 
the lobe of the ear being absent, probably through decay. At the skull was a hair- 
ornament of sheet-copper (Fig. 105) with a pin of bone in place in a socket riveted 
together to receive it. On the body of the ornament is repoussé work, including a 
delineation of the human head. Тһе small projection at the top of the ornament 
is fastened on by means of a rivet. Lying on this orna- 
ment was a small circle of вһееі-соррет, .75 inch in diame- 
ter, enclosing a five-pointed star (Fig. 106). There is a per- 
foration in the margin and two in the center of the orna- 
ment, in which cord remains in place. 
Pu id ары In addition to the burials noted, we found in the rem- 
copper, Mound Н. (Full nant of the mound dug through by us one skeleton full 
length on the back, and an aboriginal disturbance consist- 
ing of a skull and a femur together. 
A shell drinking-cup lay apart from human remains. 
MOUND I. 
Mound I, its soil loosened by cultivation and greatly washed by rain, 1з a mere 
wreck of its former self. Тһе area of what is left of the summit plateau is approxi- 
mately 85 feet north and south by 40 feet east and west. Seventeen trial-holes in 
the plateau indicated that it had not been used for burial purposes. 
MOUND J. 
Mound J, somewhat affected by wash, has a shallow and narrow trench fol- 
lowing its slope upward on the southern side and continuing part way through the 
plateau. The sides of the plateau are irregular in length, measuring about 80 feet 
east and west by 30 feet north and south. Nineteen trial-holes yielded in one in- 
stance a few fragments of human bone just below the surface. 
MOUND К. 
Mound K, largely washed away, has what is left of a summit plateau now 60 
feet long by 20 feet broad. An unimportant trench had been dug in from the 
northern side, expanding considerably in the central part of the plateau. Nine 
trial-holes were sunk by us, one of which, on the eastern side, came upon half of a 
large slab of sedimentary rock, with a scalloped margin at the unbroken end, and 
having a quantity of red paint on one side and red and cream-colored paint on the 
other. With this fragment was part of a coarse vessel of yellow-brown ware, square 
in horizontal section, with rude, incised decoration. 
