CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 201 
diameter, with a central boss perforated through the middle. In soil thrown out 
by the digger was found a somewhat smaller dise of wood, overlaid with copper on 
one side and having a similar central perforated boss. — This disc probably formed 
the part of the ear-plug referred to as being behind the lobe of the ear, while 
the larger one was worn in front. 
Where the left shoulder of the skeleton would have been were two other discs. 
similar to those just described. These discs, however, were on the same side of the 
head as the one first found, and therefore. presumably, had undergone disturbance 
in burial. 
A skeleton at full length on the back had on the chest a mass of glauconite, or 
green earth. 
Another skeleton, also extended, had near the skull Vessel No. 1, a small. 
undecorated bowl. 
Vessel No. 2, a bowl of very inferior ware, lay apart from human remains, 
Four feet down was a small quantity of decaying, fibrous wood. Тһе former 
presence of copper with it was shown by a green stain only. 
FrG. 109.— Vessel No. 5. Mound О. (Height 5.75 inches.) 
Кіс. 108.— Vessel No. 3. Mound O. (Diameter 5.8 inches.) 
А skeleton at full length to the hips, the rest having been removed by an 
aboriginal disturbance, had at the skull, Vessel No. 3, a bowl with a rude effigy of 
an animal-head, and a conventional tail on the opposite side. А fore-leg is indicated 
on one side of the bowl and a corresponding member doubtless was on the other 
side; this was missing, but has been restored (Fig. 108). With Vessel No. 5 was 
Vessel No. 4, an undecorated, wide-mouthed water-bottle in fragments. 
An extended skeleton had large shell beads at each wrist, with a few smaller 
ones intermingled. At the ankles were fifteen great beads of shell, about 2 inches 
by 1.75 inch by .75 of ап inch. Below the chin were a few pearls used as beads, 
and fragments of sheet-copper. There were also copper-coated objects of wood, 
resembling ear-plugs, less than an inch in diameter. 
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