206 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
human bones. Elsewhere in the mound a green stain alone denoted the former 
presence of copper. 
With a bunch of bones, perhaps an aboriginal disturbance, was a cylindrical 
fragment of wood that had been copper-coated. 
Vessel No. 7, a small, rude, undecorated bowl, and Vessel No. 5, a rude bowl 
of inferior ware, were together, with fragments of a wooden ornament, copper-coated, 
apart from human remains. 
About 39 inches from the surface was Burial No. 19. Ву the order in which 
they lay, small fragments of bone here and there indicated a full-length burial. 
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Near the skull was Vessel No. 9, a wide-mouthed water-bottle showing an engraved 
eagle on each side (Fig. 114). Тһе two designs, though similar in the main, vary 
somewhat in detail, especially as to the eye. In the accompanying diagram (Fig. 
115), is shown the eagle from the side opposite the one in the half-tone reproduc- 
tion. Holmes! shows engraved eagles, one on a vessel from Mississippi, the other 
on a water-bottle found by us in northwestern Florida. With the striking water- 
bottle in Mound O was a disc of fine-grained gneiss, 8.5 inches in diameter, having 
the customary notches and line decoration (Fig. 116), with paint of three shades, —— 
white, cream-color, and pink—on one side, and red pigment on the other. Placed 
centrally on this disc was another disc, undecorated, also of fine-grained gneiss, 5.4 
inches in diameter, showing considerable pigment. 
With a burial of scattered bones, perhaps an aboriginal disturbance, near the 
skull, was Vessel No. 10, in fragments. Cemented together, the vessel shows the 
design of the woodpecker on each of two sides, with speech symbols and extended 
tongue, but with a variation in the tails where the individual feathers are not rep- 
resented as pointed (Fig. 117). Probably, for the purpose of gaining space, the 
lower head has been made smaller than the upper one, as shown in diagram іп Fig. 
' Op. сй, Pl. LI (fig. e), and Pl. LXIX. 
