512 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE TOMBIGBEE RIYER. 



Burial No. 1. — 2 feet clown, 

 about 6 feet from center, a solitary 

 skull. 



Burial No. 2. — Near center, 1 

 foot down, seven skulls with a large 

 collection of various bones. 



Burial No. 3. — 16 inches below 

 the preceding, a lot of long-bones. 



Mound III.— 3 feet high, 22 



Fig. 5.— Drills chipped from pebbles. Mounds at Bickley's feet diameter. 



Landing. (Full size.) tvt l • i j. -xl 



No burials were met with in 

 this mound and it is likely all traces of bones had disappeared through decay 

 since human remains in the other mounds were in a very bad condition. A 

 large hammer-stone was the only artifact met with. 



Mound IV. — 4.5 feet high, 25 feet in diameter. 



Burial No. 1. — 4 feet from center, at short distances apart and at somewhat 

 different depths, but all probably thrown together on the slope of the mound as 

 it was forming, were a skull and femur, one femur and two tibiae and a single skull. 



Burial No. 2. — 3 feet from center, 2 feet down, were two femurs, one tibia, 

 one humerus. 



Burial No. 3. — 5 feet from the center, 4.5 feet down, was a skeleton which 

 had been interred w r hile partly held together by ligaments. The skull and some 

 vertebrae lay a short distance -away and one humerus was reversed as to position. 



Burial No. 4. — 4 feet from the center, 2 feet down, was a single skull. 

 Associated with it were some pebbles, some flakes and an arrowpoint. Another 

 skull lay a short distance farther in. 



Burial No. 5. — A lone skull 5 feet from the center, 1.5 feet down. 



Burial No. 6. — 5.5 from the center and 4.5 feet down, were fragments of 

 pelvis, a femur and a tibia. 



Burial No. 7. — 2.5 feet from the center, 5.5 feet down, lay a solitary skull. 



Burial No. 8. — 4 feet from the center, 1 foot 8 inches down, a skull of a child. 



Mound V. — This mound, unlike the others given here, was oblong in shape, 

 tapering at the ends and slightly crescentic. Its basal diameters were 40 feet 

 and 20 feet ; its height, 2 feet 7 inches. 



Burial No. 1. — 10 feet from center and 2 feet down, were one humerus, two 

 femurs and two tibia?. 



Burial No. 2. — At the center, 3.5 feet down, on the basal line, lay a skull 

 with other bones, in fragments. With these was a rude tobacco pipe of earthen- 

 ware broken to pieces by the digger, also pebbles and animal bones. 



Burial No. 3. — 10 feet from center, 3 feet down, lay one skull and fragments 

 of various bones. 



Mound VI. — 1 foot 3 inches high, 21 feet diameter. 



