CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 275 
bits of animal bone, badly decayed; a diminutive arrowhead of jasper; a neat drill 
made from a jasper pebble; a piercing implement of bone. Ata depth of 1 foot, 
and 1 foot distant from the deposit just described, was a skull, followed by a space 
occupied only by a fragment resembling part of an arm-bone. Next came a de- 
caying bit of pelvis and two femurs rightly placed, having two tibi» flexed back. 
About one mile from Breckenridge Landing, in a SE. direction, is a group of 
about twenty small mounds which the owner is unwilling to have investigated. 
MOUND NEAR STEINER’S LANDING. CHOCTAW COUNTY. 
About one-half mile in a southerly direction from Steiner's Landing, on property 
of the Allison Lumber Company, of Bellamy, Alabama, about 50 yards from the 
water, was a mound of elongated oval outline, that had long been under cultivation. 
Fragments of bone lay here and there on the surface. Its length was 54 feet; its 
maximum width, which was at 39 feet from the narrower end, was 34 feet; here 
also the mound attained its maximum height, 2.5 feet. Тһе mound, which showed 
no sign of former digging, but was completely leveled by us, was composed of sand 
with an admixture of clay. In it, apart from human remains, were several jasper 
pebbles; one arrowhead or knife, of quartzite; and a small arrowhead of jasper. 
On the surface lay an arrowhead of quartz. A few bits of inferior ware, without 
shell-tempering, were scattered throughout the mound. Decoration, when present, 
was of the cord-marked kind previously referred to. Ап undecorated smoking-pipe 
of earthenware, of the type common to this region, which unfortunately was shat- 
tered by a blow from a spade, lay apart from burials. 
In the higher part of the mound, 2 feet from the surface, lay what was left of 
a skeleton which had been at full length on the back. Over the trunk was charcoal. 
Near the head were two broken pebbles of jasper and fragments of fresh-water 
mussel-shells. At the shoulder was a handsomely polished “celt” of volcanic 
stone, about 6 inches in length. 
In the same part of the mound, near the surface, was a lone skull. 
It is probable that this mound had been much higher at.one time and that 
certain burials have been ploughed away during its cultivation. 
One-half mile north of Steiner s Landing are two small mounds in which we 
were not permitted to dig on account of a recent change in ownership. 
MOUNDS NEAR Rempert’s LANDING, MARENGO COUNTY. 
In woods, the property of Mr. D. J. Meador, of Myrtlewood, Alabama, about 
one mile in a westerly direction from the landing, is a group of symmetrical little 
mounds, all near to one another, some actually in contact. These mounds, 31 in 
number, according to our count, which perhaps omitted some, were smaller than 
certain ones in the group near Breckenridge Landing, none exceeding 4 feet in 
height, though some seemed to do so, owing to depressions near them whence 
material for their construction had been taken. 
