CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER. 



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Abbott, " Primitive Industry," page 208, figures a bone fish-hook and com- 

 ments on the rarity of such objects in eastern North America. 



C. C. Jones in his "Antiquities of the Southern Indians" points out the 

 absence of fish-hooks from the districts described by him, and in all our mound 

 work in Georgia, in South Carolina, in Alabama and in Florida, where, in addition, 

 shell heaps were exhaustively searched, we have met with fish-hooks in this instance 

 alone, so the reader can appreciate the interest of this discovery, which furnished, 

 so far as we can learn, the only shell fish-hook found east of the Pacific Slope. 



Scraper. — A fine mussel-shell [Unto heros) was found, perforated for attach- 

 ment to a handle and showing marks of wear at one end. 



Drinking Cup. — A marine univalve (Cassis cameo), with interior portions cut 

 out to form a drinking cup, lay near a skull. This is the first instance where a 

 drinking cup has been found by us wrought from a shell other than the conch (Fulgur). 



Shells. — Seven mussel-shells (Unio heros) were found near a burial, while 

 another, filled with tines of a stag-horn and decaying piercing implements of bone, 

 lay near human remains. 



A cockle-shell (Cardium magnum) lay almost in contact with a skull. 



Fig. 39.— Earthei 

 Mound c 

 Thompson Plac 



EARTHENWARE. 



Discs. — A number of discs made from potsherds, for 

 use in games, lay in midden refuse throughout the mound 

 and a disc of earthenware, slightly broken, having on one 

 side a central depression surrounded by six rays, also was 

 present (Fig. 39). 



Vessels. — The yield of earthenware vessels from this 

 mound was disappointing in view of the fact that fragments 

 of good ware were present in the mound. In one instance 

 only were vessels found with the dead. Two bowls lay on 



Fig. 40.— Earthenware vessel. Mound on Charlotte Thompson Place. (Full s 



