268 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
central parts of the mound where were all entire skeletons. The bones, badly de- 
cayed, were found from the surface to the base, while one skeleton lay in a pit more 
than a foot below the base, or more than 6 feet from the surface. The forms of 
burial were as follows : 
Lone skulls—8. - 
Small bunches with a single skull—2. 
Small bunches without skull—6. 
Fragments of bone—2. 
Skeletons flexed on the right side, including one of an adolescent—4. 
Skeletons flexed on the left side, including one of an adolescent and one of a 
child—6. 
Skeleton full length on back—1. 
Ten inches below the surface was the lower part of a skeleton, flexed on the 
left side, extending to the upper part of the thorax. Scattered bones of the upper 
part lay around. This, probably, was a recent disturbance. 
A skull and part of an arm bone lay 29 inches from the surface, in a part of 
the mound where burials were numerous and where an aboriginal disturbance might 
have been looked for. 
A skull with scattered bones lay 1 foot down. 
This completes the list of thirty-two burials. 
Behind a flexed skeleton already noted, lay many disarranged bones. 
One of the flexed skeletons had resting on the leg bones the skull of a child. 
Two of the flexed skeletons in this mound were more closely drawn together 
than are those we usually call flexed, and verged on the closely flexed. 
The lower extremities of a flexed skeleton showed marked pathological changes. 
A femur, tibia, and fibula belonging to this skeleton have been sent by us to the 
Army Medical Museum at Washington. The corresponding bones of the other side 
were badly broken in digging. | 
In the central part of the mound, separate, were five skeletons associated with 
charcoal. One of these skeletons had earth colored with red pigment on the trunk, 
extending to the pelvis, and considerable charcoal near the head. Charcoal was at 
the head of another skeleton and at the feet of a third. The position of the char- 
coal in the two other instances is not given in our field-notes. 
Near certain scattered bones was a neatly made arrowhead of cehrt. 
А flexed skeleton had with it, together, one jasper pebble; two pebbles of the 
same material, somewhat broken; a drill fashioned from a pebble of jasper; a drill 
of quartzite; a pointed implement of the same stone, perhaps a drill; a roughly 
made or unfinished implement; and the end of a rude, pointed tool, the latter two 
of quartzite. 
A flexed skeleton of an adolescent had many shell beads at the neck. 
Lying near the pelvis of a skeleton of a child, together, were a piercing imple- 
ment made from the cannon-bone of a deer; a bone of a тассооп; a quartz pebble ; 
and a pointed fragment of quartzite. With this deposit, curiously enough, con- 
