288 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, MOBILE BAY. 
mer-stone, a number of pebble-hammers, pebbles, a small bird-arrowhead of quartz, 
and a slab of ferruginous sand-stone. 
Together, with no burial at hand, were five pebbles, some showing use as ham- 
mers, and many small fragments of an undecorated vessel. 
Another deposit, lying alone, consisted of one pebble; a rude arrowhead of 
quartzite; an astragalus of a deer; and a cutting implement of soft, clayey stone, 
4.7 inches long, with one end prepared for hafting (Fig. 4). 
With the exception of the fragments to which refer- 
ence has been made, no earthenware was present with 
burials in this mound. 
About 15 inches below the surface was a smoking- 
pipe of inferior earthenware, undecorated, with the excep- 
tion of a few parallel lines on the margin of a kind of 
shoulder extending beyond the base of the bowl. On 
two sides of the rim of the bowl, and on one side of the 
portion intended to receive the stem, small parts have 
been chipped away, apparently an intentional mutilation 
(Fig. 5). 
Біс. 4.—Implement of stone. 
Mound near Starke's Wharf. 
(Length 4.7 inches.) Ете. 5.—Pipe of earthenware. Mound near Starke's wharf. (Height 2.25 inches.) 
In fragments, near the surface, was part of another earthenware pipe of an 
ordinary type and of inferior ware. 
Five feet from the surface, in many fragments, was an undecorated vessel 
which, when whole, had a globular body with a short neck. 
Throughout the mound lay a limited number of sherds, some of rather inferior 
ware, others of excellent, yellow paste, all without shell-tempering. Decoration on 
them varied. There were present incised designs and decoration with red paint, 
and the two іп combination ; also incised and punctate designs. Тһе small check- 
stamp is represented, as are three varieties of a pattern of complicated stamp— 
seemingly rather far westward for this kind of decoration. One of these com- 
plicated stamp designs, and two other sherds from this mound, are shown in Fig. 6. 
One fragment of a vessel, part of a base, shows a mortuary perforation. 
