CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, MISSISSIPPI SOUND. 295 
Surrounding the mound had been a dwelling-site, and the ploughed surface 
showed hammer-stones, fragments of chert, and bits of pottery, the last including 
a bird-head ornament from a vessel, 5 inches in height. 
A sprinkling of small clam-shells (Rangra cuneata) was observable over the 
ground. 
Near the mound and in the swamp were circular elevations and ridges, all of 
clay with the exception of one which was of sand and clay. Careful examination 
showed these to have been dwelling-sites containing the usual debris and, in one in- 
stance, a toy-bowl of earthenware, about an inch in diameter. Within the sites 
and on the surrounding surface was fairly good earthenware, some of the fragments 
being rather rudely decorated. Nearly all were shell-tempered, though in one in- 
stance, at least, the tempering was of coarse sand. One of the well-known earthen- 
ware discs, cut from a fragment of a vessel came from a dwelling-site. This dise 
bears what may have been an interesting, incised decoration made after the excision 
of the disc, but unfortunately, it is too much weathered to determine the character 
of the design. 
„Опе circular elevation, about 5 feet high and 100 feet in diameter, had near 
the surface a flexed burial, presumably intrusive. In addition, were two recent 
graves with skeletons at full length, near which were iron nails and fragments of 
wooden coffins. 
MOUNDS AND SITES INVESTIGATED ON MISSISSIPPI SOUND. 
SHELL Deposir on DAUPHIN ISLAND, MOBILE County, ALABAMA. 
Dauphin island, part of which is bordered by Mobile bay, and part by Missis- 
` sippi sound, of which it is the southeastern boundary, is mainly a narrow strip of 
bare sand. At its eastern end is a considerable aboriginal deposit of shells, mainly 
of the oyster. 
Some digging by us yielded fragments of earthenware, some shell-tempered, 
others not. The ware, when decorated, resembles that of Mobile bay. Loop 
handles and effigies of heads of birds are present. A selection of sherds from this 
island is shown in Fig. 10. 
No human remains were found, though in the great shell-heaps of this place, 
burials may well have escaped us. 
MOUNDS NEAR CODEN Bayou, MOBILE COUNTY. 
Coden bayou, a part of Mississippi sound (where work was begun by us after 
leaving Mobile bay), and the nearby town of Coden have their name from an abbre- 
viation of Cog a’lnde, “ turkey,’ the former name of the bayou, which name it 
still bears on the Government chart. 
Four small mounds, one belonging to Mr. Henry Klass, Jr., of Mobile, three 
to Mr. E. F. Long, of Coden, were investigated by us near this place without 
