292 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER. 



The mound was a mixture of clay and sand without stratification. Bits of 

 charcoal and other evidence of fire were present throughout. 



The burials remaining were largely central or near the center. A number had 

 been disturbed b}^ the plough and doubtless many more had been taken from the 

 mound in former time by the same agency. Such as remained were of the bunched 

 variety x with three exceptions. One of the bunches had six femurs of adults with 

 two skulls and other bones of adults, and at one side the skull and certain bones 

 of an infant. 



A skeleton was extended in anatomical order from the pelvis down. Below it 

 was a skull with a few ribs. Nearby was another skull. 



Just below the surface, crushed to small pieces, were parts of the remains of 

 one or more vessels. Among them lay the bones of an infant. 



Fig. 1. — Earthenware vessel. Mound 



Almost in the center of the mound were many fragments of two 

 crushed by the plough and wanting certain parts, doubtless ploughed away. The 

 remaining portions have been reunited and are, with nearly all the collections made 

 by us, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



The under vessel, B, contained the bones of an infant. The ware was of 

 fairly good quality, without admixture of pounded shell. Height, 6.5 inches; 

 maximum diameter, 13.7 inches; diameter of aperture, 10.7 inches. The vessel 

 is semi-globular in shape, with a small upright rim decorated with notches around 

 the exterior edge. The body bears a complicated incised decoration partly shown 

 in Fig. 1. 



1 For forms of burial see our "Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Georgia Coast," pg. 6 et seq. 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. XI. 



