508 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 



2 feet in diameter had previously been dug near the center. This mound was 

 practically dug through by us. Human remains were present in nine places. 



Burial No. 1. — A single femur. 



Burial No. 2. — A skeleton of an adult, flexed on the right side, heading S. 



Burial No. 3. — Skeleton of an adult, flexed on left side, heading N. N. W. 



Burial No. 4. — Skeleton of a powerful adult, male, flexed on the left side, 

 heading E. In contact with the skull were seven fish-hooks of bone, each about 1 

 inch in length. Four were more or less decayed. The reader of our Report of the 

 Alabama river x may recall that in a mound near Montgomery we found a large 

 fish-hook of shell, said to be the only one of that material ever met with east of 

 the Pacific slope, and one of bone. Bone fish-hooks are less uncommonly met 

 with, though far from numerous. These two cases are the only ones where fish- 

 hooks have been found by us. 



The hooks from the mound at Spragins' Mill and from the Alabama, like most 

 others we have seen figured as coming from the United States, are unbarbed. 

 Rau, 2 however, shows a barbed fish-hook from New York. A barbed hook is 

 figured in the Archaeological Report, Minister of Education, Ontario, 1900. The 

 barbed hook may possibly be a more northern type. Eskimo influence has been 

 suggested. 



Burial No. 5. — Skeleton of adolescent, full length on back, heading N. E. 



Burial No. 6. — Lower part of a skeleton, lying in the same direction and by 

 the side of Burial No. 5. The upper part had been removed by the previous exca- 

 vation of which we have spoken. 



Burial No. 7. — Bones disturbed by the plow or by cattle. 



Burial No. 8. — Near the center, 4 feet down, on the black basal line, a skeleton 

 of an adult, flexed on the left side, heading N. 



Burial No. 9. — Skeleton of an adult, flexed on right side, heading S. W. 



Loose in the sand, separately, were : a pitted hammer-stone of considerable 

 weight ; a pitted smoothing-stone ; a small and handsome chert arrowhead ; a rude 

 arrowhead. Together, were deposited five hammer-stones, the largest 6 inches in 

 diameter. Four were more or less pitted. With these was a large pebble, rudely 

 notched on opposite sides for attachment. Near these were : a stone with three 

 pits ; pitted hammer-stone ; a triangular pebble chipped on one side to a rude cut- 

 ting edge. A pebble similarly treated was found elsewhere in the sand. 



Mounds near Simmons' Landing, Sumter County, Ala. 

 In the swamp, about 1.5 miles, from the landing, in a W. by S. direction, on a 

 ridge, were three mounds in sight of each other. The most westerly, of unstrati- 

 fied sand, had basal diameters of 34 feet and 40 feet. The height was 3.5 feet. 

 No trace of previous examination was apparent. The mound was dug through by 

 us with the exception of a small portion surrounding a tree. The results were as 

 follows : 



1 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. XI, p. 322. 



2 "Prehistoric Fishing," p. 128. 



