228 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
of which is a design probably representing an arrow and the sun. Vessel No. 12 is 
a small, undecorated dish of coarse, yellow ware. 
Vessel No. 13 is a diminutive, wide-mouthed water-bottle, undecorated, scarcely 
more than 2 inches in height. This little bottle, found dissociated from human 
bones, was in a pit where aboriginal disturbance, no doubt, had separated it from 
its burial. 
Vessel No. 14, a bowl with parts of a water-bottle, badly crushed, lay not 
immediately associated with bones, though as at least seven burials lay in the pit in 
which the vessel was found, the cause of the separation may well be imagined. 
With it were crumbling fragments of sheet-copper and a shell gorget (Fig. 149), 
bearing a bird decoration, which received a blow from a trowel. 
Vessel No. 15,a wide-mouthed water- 
bottle with scroll decoration and four 
groups of three finger-tips each, pointing 
downward, lay badly crushed at the head 
Fie. 149.—Shell gorget. 
(Full 
Ridge north of Mound R. FIG. 150.— Vessel No. 15a. Ridge north of Mound К. 
size.) (Diameter 5.5 inches.) 
of a skeleton. With this vessel was Vessel No. 15a, part of a small bowl with four 
equidistant protuberances (Fig. 150). 
Vessel No. 16, is a broad-mouthed water-bottle in fragments scattered through 
a pit, having the well-known depressions and scroll decoration. 
Vessel No. 17, a broad-mouthed water-bottle (Fig. 151), found at the head of a 
skeleton, bears on opposite sides an engraved design representing an antlered and 
winged rattlesnake with forked tongue extended. This design, which we give 
diagrammatically in Fig. 152, suggests the winged and crested rattlesnake shown by 
Holmes! as оп a vessel from Arkansas, and referred to as “one of the most re- 
markable ever obtained from the mounds.” “There can be little doubt," says Pro- 
fessor Holmes, “ that the figures of this design are derived from the mythologic art 
of the people." 
Vessels Nos. 18, 19, 20.— These vessels, respectively, a small bowl with beaded 
margin; a broad-mouthed water-bottle with incised decoration showing five open 
hands pointing downward, on each of which is an open eye (Fig. 153); and a pot 
with four loop-handles, each bearing three small protuberances (Fig. 154), were 
present together under the chest of a skeleton. Ав there had been much disturb- 
* Op. е; p. 91. 
