254 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
Apart from human remains, in various parts of the mound, were certain pebbles 
of a shape well suited for pebble-hammers, but showing no mark of use. As pebbles 
of similar form lay along the river bank, those in the mound may have been acci- 
dentally introduced. 
Singly and apart from human remains was an imperforate bowl with rude line 
and punctate decoration (Fig. 3). Also away from burials was a bowl of perhaps 
two quarts capacity, of fairly good ware and highly polished (Fig. 4). The rim 
shows a certain thickening. On it and just below it are encircling lines of a deco- 
ration which at first glance one might think were made by a roulette, or notched 
wheel, of a kind figured and described by Holmes ;' but on examination it may һе 
seen that these punctate markings are at irregular distances apart. It becomes 
apparent, then, that as a pointed implement was trailed around the vessel, the 
impress of the point was made upon the clay. Around the body of the vessel, 
which has a mortuary perforation of the base, is a single, incised line. 
There were also in this mound single fragments of vessels and parts of vessels 
in fragments, some undecorated, one 
with the interesting, incised decora- 
tion shown in Fig. 5 
One vessel, of which but com- 
paratively small fragments were 
found, had been decorated in red 
pigment on the outside, or on part 
of the outside, and red pigment with 
incised decoration interiorly. All 
the earthenware found by us in this 
mound came from the eastern part 
—some near the margin, some far- 
ther in. 
A small, rude cutting implement 
of chert lay in the sand. 
Toward the center of the 
mound the grouping of masses of 
Fic. 5.—Fragment of earthenware vessel. Mound near Payne’s SNO: 
Woodyard. (Height 4.4 inches.) rock was more marked. Among 
these was the first burial found by 
us, consisting of three fragments of a femur and part of an ulna, 50 inches from 
the surface. 
Almost exactly in a central position in the mound, 3.5 feet down, was the 
skeleton of an adult, partly flexed on the right side, with the skull badly crushed. 
It seemed as if a special arrangement had been aecorded the masses of rock between 
which this skeleton lay, as large, flat slabs were above it, as well as below the head 
and chest. 
' “Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States," 20th An. Rep. Bur. Am. Eth., p. 77. 
