344 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER. 



Fig. 66.— Pendants of sheet copper. Smaller monnd in Thirty-Acre Field. (Full 



of the eye always occupied the same 

 place on the pendant, and that the 

 eyes, though having a general resem- 

 blance, were in no case exactly alike. 

 Moreover, the decoration beneath, 

 though similar in a general way, was 

 never identical as would have been 

 the case, had the design resulted from 

 a stamp rather than from the pressure 

 of a' moving object such as horn pushed 

 down on copper placed over buckskin. 

 We have not been able to learn the 

 meaning of this design which, however, 

 is distinctly aboriginal. A selection of 

 these interesting pendants is shown in 

 Figs. 66, 67. 



There came also from this mound 

 a small, coarse, undecorated pot and 

 a water-bottle of smooth black ware, 

 badly broken, 5 inches high and 4.3 

 inches in maximum diameter, with incised decoration (Fig. 68). 



Mound in Big Eddy Field, Montgomery County. 

 This mound, in a field known as Big Field or the Big Eddy Field, is about one- 

 half mile in a southwesterly direction from the larger mound in the Thirty-Acre 

 Field and is under the same ownership. In the midst of a level field, long under 



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