CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 235 
Fig. 167.—Stone vessel, Ridge north of Mound Б. (About half size.) 
with sheet-copper, each somewhat less than an inch in diameter. Part of the skull 
is stained green from contact with the metal. Nearby, in the soil, was a copper 
fish-hook (Fig. 164), unbarbed, but grooved to receive a line. We believe this to be 
the only fish-hook of copper ever discovered in southern United States. 
Directly under the head of a disturbed skeleton was а disc of fine-grained 
gneiss, 5.5 inches in diameter, with notched margin, and having a trace of white 
paint on one side and a quantity of red pigment on the other. With the dise were 
twelve spherical shell beads each about .6 of an inch in diameter. 
