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of shell. By the skull were two neatly-made shell hair-pins, more pointed than is 
usually the case. Inverted on the base of the skull, covering but part of it, like a 
cap, as shown in Fig. 1, was an imperforate bowl of common shell-tempered ware, 
undecorated save for four small, equidistant projections at the rim, The measure- 
ments' of this bowl ате: maximum diameter, 6.5 inches; diameter of opening, 5.5 
inches; height, 4 inches. 
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In a recent paper? mention was made of what might be called a form of urn- 
burial that had been noted in New Mexico and Arizona, where the skull. lving with 
its skeleton, was covered by an inverted bowl. In the early part of the present 
Fig. 1.—Burial. Mound near Three Rivers Landing. 
season (1905) we found in a mound to the north of Mobile bay, Alabama, just such 
a burial, the skull being entirely covered by a curiously decorated bowl.  Unfor- 
tunately we found no repetition of this form of burial either on Mobile bay or on 
Mississippi sound, as may be noted іп the report which follows this one. This dis- 
covery, on the Tombigbee river, of a bowl inverted on a skull, though not covering 
it, may be regarded as additional evidence that the custom of placing bowls over 
skulls? with their skeletons, occasionally was practised farther east than has hitherto 
been reported. 
Тһе third mound in order, on the edge of the bluff, originally circular in out- 
line, had a small part washed away. Its height was 2 feet 2 inches; the basal 
' All measurements of earthenware in this report are approximate only. 
à a aem Nee burial in the United States,” by Clarence B. Moore, American Anthropolo- 
gist, Oct. -Пес., 
3 The s will not confuse this custom with a well-known form of urn-burial practised along 
the northwestern Florida coast, where inverted bowls were placed over isolated skulls or skulls accom- 
panied by a few bones only. 
