204 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
so far as we could determine. Nearby was a slab of fine-grained gneiss (Fig. 110), 
14 inches by 9.5 inches, with scalloped ends and incised line decoration on one side. 
On one major surface of this slab is red pigment, and cream-colored paint is on the 
other. With the slab was a dise of fine-grained gneiss, 8.5 inches in diameter ( Fig. 
111), with notches around the margin, and three encircling lines and faint traces of 
a kind of meander on one side only. As in the case of the slab, the dise has red 
paint on one side and white paint on the other. Nearby lay a shell gorget, hope- 
Fra. 112.— Vessel No. 6. Mound O. (Height 6.75 inches.) 
lessly decayed. With this burial was Vessel No. 6, having on two sides the double- 
headed woodpecker design with a tail extending from each side of the body. The 
speech symbols are present, but not the extended tongue (Fig. 112). In addition, 
three fingers are shown near the head of the bird, at each side (Fig. 115). 
A copper-coated ear-plug and fragments of sheet-copper were found apart from 
