310 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER, 



required it, stout cotton bandages tightened by improvised tourniquets were adjusted 

 with advantage, and these bandages were allowed to remain in place until the 

 vessels had made their journey North. In certain cases where vessels, crushed into 

 small fragments, had had principal parts irrecoverably carried away by the plough, 

 and the remaining parts bore no decoration of interest, they were abandoned. 



We shall now give in detail a description of the vessels and their contents. 

 All measurements are approximate. The vessels, when not otherwise specified, 

 may be seen at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Vessels A and B. — Vessel B, of the type already referred to as coming from 

 Matthews' Landing, which we shall hereafter, for convenience, call the receptacle 

 type, has beneath the rim on the outside, instead of the upright ridges, four small 

 loop-shaped handles, such as are shown on the figure of vessel E E. Its maximum 

 diameter of body is 14 inches; its height, 10 inches. The rim is badly shattered 

 and parts are missing. In B were splinters of decaying bones, one humerus of a 

 very young infant and a mussel shell (Unio crassidens). 



Vessel B was capped by an inverted bowl (A) with incised and punctate deco- 

 ration as shown in Fig. 22. Maximum diameter of body, 14 inches ; height, 7 

 inches. In the base was a perforation which could not have come from the metal 

 rods in use for sounding, as the splintering showed a blow from the inside and, 

 moreover, the piece was missing. This is the first case in any section of the 

 country where we have found a surmounting vessel with basal perforation. 



Vessel C. — A short distance below the base of Vessel B, t6 one side, was a 

 bowl (C) intact, with incised and punctate decoration, practically the same as that 

 on Vessel A, having a maximum diameter of 7 inches, a height of 8.5 inches. 



It lay inverted about 4 inches above a skull belonging to the skeleton of an 

 infant, in anatomical order. 



Vessel D. — This vessel, similar in shape and decoration to Vessel B, was badly 

 broken. It contained a few fragments of bones of an infant and a mussel shell of 

 the kind found in Vessel B. Vessel D was surmounted by fragments of what had 

 probably been a part of a vessel. These fragments, with Vessel D, were sent to 

 Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



Vessels E and F. — Vessel F, of the usual receptacle type, 11.7 inches high, 

 17.2 inches in maximum diameter, contained the bones of an infant, with a shell 

 bead, a perforated cockle-shell {Cardiuni) and a small oval, undecorated shell gorget 

 with double perforation. Vessel F was capped by Vessel E, inverted, from which 

 the rim had been broken prior to its burial. The body has a maximum diameter 

 of 18 inches; the height of the fragment is 8 inches. These vessels were sent to 

 the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 



Vessels G and H. — Vessel H, 23 inches across the body and 16 inches in 

 height, of the receptacle type as to shape, with the ridges and, in addition, six 

 small loops beneath the margin, contained parts of the skeleton of an adult, 

 namely : two shoulder blades, two collar bones, breast bone, twenty-four ribs, 

 the pelvic bones and nineteen vertebrae. The shoulder blades and corresponding 



