CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 213 
Near the surface of a pit containing several burials at greater depth, was a 
ceremonial weapon of cherty material, shown in Fig. 127 
Vessels Nos. 23, 24, and 25, are all undecorated bowls found it 
away from human remains. 
Vessel No. 26, with only a fragment of decaying bone nearby, in caved soil, 
fragments, 
was a graceful water-bottle with a decoration so faint that it can just be distinguished 
in the half-tone reproduction (Fig. 128). 
Fic. 128.—Vessel No. 26. Mound O. (Diameter 4.75 inches.) 
With disturbed bones were corroded fragments of what seem to have been hair- 
ornaments of sheet-copper, but their incomplete condition make absolute identifica- 
tion impossible. 
Vessel No. 27, found alone, is an undecorated, wide-mouthed water-bottle (Fig. 
129). 
Apart from human remains was Vessel 
water-bottle (Fig. 130), with Vessel No. 29, 
been provided with two loop-handles. 
Burial No. 37 consisted of a deposit of fragments of calcined human bones at 
This pit, which had a maximum diameter of 
The 
No. 28, a broad-mouthed. undecorated 
a small, undecorated pot that once had 
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the bottom of a pit 52 inches deep. 
19 inches, had contracted to 13 inches where the calcined fragments were. 
calcined deposit, somewhat less in diameter than the pit, had a depth of 9 inches. 
Throughout the soil above the deposit were other fragments of calcined bone. 
Vessel No. 80, a bowl in fragments, unassociated with human remains, has five 
encircling, incised lines below the rim. 
