892 MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
nearly all of fine grained sandstone, were found on our second visit to Moundville. 
None of these ceremonial palettes! bears any interesting decoration such as has 
FrG. 88.—Design on palette. (About half size.) 
for aborigines to have made white 
lead, and that the method by which 
they obtained it was by scraping 
from masses of galena (lead sul- 
phide), such as we found at Mound- 
ville at both of our visits, the white 
lead (lead carbonate) which is a su- 
perficial transformation occurring on 
masses of lead sulphide. This ma- 
terial, mixed with bear’s grease, 
would make an excellent paint. 
While at Moundville we found, 
sometimes in lumps with burials, or 
smeared on objects, red coloring 
matter which we felt must be hema- 
tite (red oxide of iron—the true 
aboriginal red paint). However, 
we decided on a chemical determin- 
ation in addition to the analyses 
made in other seasons of red paint 
found under like conditions. The 
result, as we had supposed, showed 
the material to be hematite. 
‘This subject has been brought to date. 
been found on other palettes at 
Moundville and elsewhere. One very 
rude palette (Figs. 87, 88) has certain 
rough markings. 
Three fragments with marginal 
decoration differing somewhat from 
those found by us before are shown 
in Fig. 89. 
On practically all the palettes 
was paint, sometimes red, sometimes 
white—the red being hematite; the 
white, white lead (lead carbonate). 
It may be remembered by those who 
have read our first report оп Mound- 
ville that it is admittedly impossible 
F1G. 89.—Fragments of ceremonial palettes. (About half size.) 
“Certain Notched or Scalloped Stone Tablets of the 
Mound Builders,” W. Н. Holmes, Amer. Anthrop. Jan.-March, 1906. 
