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| This burial, which may be called a kind of urn-burial, occurring in Alabama, 
is of considerable interest inasmuch as this form of urn-burial, namely ап entire 
skeleton, the skull belonging to which is covered by an inverted bow], has not been 
described, to our knowledge, as met with farther eastward than Arizona and New 
Mexico." Along the northwestern Florida coast we found urn-burials where isolated 
skulls or skulls with a few scattered bones, were covered by large bowls inverted 
over them, but this form of urn-burial is different from that found on Simpson 
island. The burial here detailed is the only one of the kind we have met with, 
with the exception of one, somewhat resembling it, found by us in a mound near 
Three Rivers Landing, Tombigbee river, Alabama.’ 
Certain bunched burials in this mound were noteworthy as showing careful 
arrangement. One was made up of the bones of an adult and those of a child, in- 
cluding the skulls. One consisted of a considerable bunch of long-bones, all parallel, 
but without skulls. Another was composed of two series of long-bones carefully 
arranged, the upper at right angles to the lower. On the bunch last mentioned 
were two skulls. 
No bunched burial had more than two skulls, with one exception. A central 
Ьипсһ or layer, 8 feet long, 14 to 22 inches in breadth, was made up mostly of long- 
bones, not thrown in promiscuously but carefully piled, among which were femurs 
representing ten individuals. With this bunch were five crania. 
Below the knee of the skeleton of an adult was a discoidal stone, 3.25 inches 
Fre. 2.—Decoration on vessel from Simpson Island, (About half size.) 
1 Clarence B. Moore, “Aboriginal Urn-burial in the United States,” American Anthropologist, 
Oct.-Dec., 1904. ! prm 
? «Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Lower Tombigbee River," Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., 
Vol. XIII, p. 251. 
