950 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
A skeleton at full length on the back lay 1 foot 10 inches from the surface. 
The cranium was one of the two to which reference has been made. 
In a grave 3 feet 5 inches deep, made by cutting through the local layer of 
yellow sand, and extending below the base of the mound, lay a skeleton at full length 
on the back, in anatomical order up to the upper dorsal region. Тһе uppermost 
dorsal, and the cervical, vertebrae were in disorder. Just beyond them were the 
right clavicle and the manubrium. The skull, the left clavicle, both scapule, and 
both humeri were missing. The radii and аш and all the finger bones were in 
place, as were most of the ribs. Тһе head and neck of the right femur and the cor- 
responding acetabulum, which showed a pathological condition, have been sent by 
us to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. 
Two feet six inches from the surface was a skeleton at full length on the back.. 
having all bones present except the calvarium. The atlas was turned over back- 
ward, as if disturbed by the removal of part of the skull. 
Тһе skeleton of a child, flexed on the right side, lay 2 feet 2 inches from the 
surface. | 
The skeletons of two children, side by side, each flexed on the left side, lay 2 
feet 5 inches down. 
In agrave which had been cut through the local layer of yellow sand, 20 inches 
from the surface, was the skeleton of a child, partly flexed on the left side. 
About the same depth in another part of the mound was the complete skeleton 
of an adult, lying at full length on the back. 
А skeleton, also at full length on the back, had a skull showing marked frontal 
flattening, one of the two sent to the Army Medical Museum. 
There were also in this mound: a bunched burial with one skull; a lone cal- 
varium; part of a skeleton without a cranium, parts in order, others not; the 
skeleton of an adolescent, in order to the lumbar region but disarranged above. 
But a few inches below the surface was the body of a large bowl, of coarse, 
shell-tempered ware, with rough, incised and punctate decoration. In this large 
fragment, from which the rim was entirely missing, were ten human vertebra, а 
sternum, one clavicle, one scapula, and certain ribs. Obviously the upper part of 
this bowl had been wrecked by contact with a plough, and possibly, at the same 
time, an inverted bowl, serving as a cover, and perhaps some of the bones, may have 
been carried away. We have found numerous urn-burials in this condition in 
Georgia and along the Alabama river. 
Thirty inches from the surface lay a skeleton at full length on the back. The 
left arm was parallel with the body ; the right forearm was flexed upward, the hand 
resting on the shoulder. Тһе skull lay on its vertex, the face turned from the rest 
of the skeleton. Three cervical vertebra lay beside the skull; the mandible and 
one clavicle lay a little beyond it. Presumably in removing the skeleton from the 
dead-house after the flesh had decayed, the skeleton being held together by ligaments, 
the skull and certain neighboring parts had become detached and had been care- 
lessly replaced. Хеаг the neck were many glass beads and two barrel-shaped ones 
