212 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
exposed to the ай. On the glauconite within the cup was a mussel-shell containing 
red pigment. With these vessels was a slab of stone, undressed as to its sides, 
having a certain concavity of each 
broad surface, on one of which was 
red paint. 
Vessel No. 20 (Fig. 125) lay in 
fragments in a pit near bones, but 
was not attributable to any burial in 
particular. The design, similar to 
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Fria. 126.— Vessel Хо. 20. Decoration. Mound О. 
(About half size.) 
several found at Moundville, but not 
noted elsewhere, so far as we know, 
consists of the sign of the four quar- 
ters represented by series of three 
digits pointing in the four directions. 
Centrally are series of concentric cros- 
ses and circles. Between each series 
of digits is cross-hatch, as shown in 
diagram in Fig. 126. 
Vessel No. 21, a small, undecora- 
ted, wide-mouthed water-bottle, lay 
inverted in a pit where, seemingly, it 
had been tossed in a disturbance in 
aboriginal times. This vessel bears a 
perforation in the base, presumably 
the result of accident at its first dis- 
interment. 
Near a disturbed burial was a 
disc of fine-grained gneiss, 7 inches in 
diameter, having the usual decoration, 
with traces of white paint on one side 
, Ете. 127.—Ceremonial weapon of 
and red on the other. chert. Mound О, (Full size.) 
