CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 223 
Skeletons at full length on the back, including two children—38. 
Aboriginal disturbances, including seven children—15. 
Skeleton flexed on the right side—1. 
Skeleton flexed on the left side—1. 
Skeleton of child, partly flexed—1. 
Bones of infant—1. 
Decayed bones of child—1. 
Bones of children disturbed by our diggers—2. 
Bunched burials, including that of a child —3. 
Lone skull—1. 
The vessels of earthenware from this mound will be described in detail. 
Vessel No. l.—This vessel, a broad-mouthed water-bottle of highly-polished, 
black ware (Fig. 145), lay near the skull of a child. The decoration consists of the 
symbol of the four quarters, the cross, which is here represented by four series each 
of three digits having conventional finger-nails. In addition, are depressions in the 
body of the vessel, series of fingers pointing upward and downward, and certain 
cross-hatch decoration, as shown in diagram in Fig. 144. Designs generally similar 
to that on this vessel, but varying somewhat in minor details, were found several 
times at Moundville. With Vessel No. 1 were a shell drinking-eup (Fulgur per- 
versum), and Vessels Nos. 2 and 5, respectively, an undecorated, broad-mouthed 
water-bottle and a rude bowl bearing in effigy the head of some animal, looking 
inward. 
Vessel No. 4.—An undecorated water-bottle (Fig. 145) lay at the head of a 
skeleton. 
Vessel No. 5.—In the outskirts of the mound, away from human remains, was 
a large part of a coarse cooking-pot. Within this fragment was a beautiful toy- 
bowl, 1.5 inch in diameter and 1 inch in height, symmetrically wrought from a 
chocolate-colored, banded stone. 
Vessel No. 6.—A neat little bowl with inverted rim, having faint, incised 
decoration, found at the head of a skeleton. 
Vessel No. 7.—A bowl in fragments, lying near the skull of a child. 
Vessel No. 8.—About two-thirds of a bowl having a large, flat handle projecting 
horizontally from one side. The opposite part of the bowl is missing. 
Vessel No. 9.—4 skeleton at full length on the back had charcoal at the feet 
and minute fragments of a sheet-copper ornament nearby. At the head was a wide- 
mouthed water-bottle (Fig. 146)! bearing an engraved decoration, one of the most 
remarkable it has been our good fortune to encounter. This design, shown in 
diagram in Fig. 147, consists of four skulls facing each other in pairs, with two 
skeleton arms and heads between them. In addition, two symbols are given, the 
meaning of which is entirely beyond our ken. The skulls show the sutures and 
1 The design has not been strengthened on the vessel, nor has retouching been done on the pho- 
tographic negative. А white powder has been rubbed into the lines of the design in order to bring 
them out more clearly in the photograph. 
Erratum.—In the second line from the bottom of this page the word “ heads" should be “ hands." 
