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Hopewell Mound Group 



Section 5, near No. 283. The following objects were found with the 

 former: Three copper plates, one of which lay beneath the hips, 

 another below the shoulders, and a third under the head, two of these, 

 being the largest found; a copper helmet-shaped head-dress; copper 

 ear-ornaments; a clay hemisphere covered with metal; a number of 

 copper beads, the first found in this mound; a finely carved section of 

 a human femur; a portion of a delicately wrought ornament of tortoise 

 shell (Fig. 126). The same carved form appears upon both sides of this 

 fragment, which represents but a small portion of the object. Unfortu- 

 nately, the remaining portion of the carving is so badly disintegrated 

 and broken that it is impossible to ascertain its original outline. Articles 

 cut from tortoise shell have also been taken from the Turner group of 

 mounds, and from the stone graves of Tennessee. A number of other 

 objects were scattered irregularly over the chest. 



Fig. 126. 

 Ornament of Tortoise Shell Found with Skeleton 281. 



A bird effigy and an effigy of an otter or beaver, both carved in 

 bone, were found by the side of the head. The following description of 

 these objects is taken from the notes and observations of C. C. Wil- 

 loughby. 



The hollow effigies of the same class, as those later to be described 

 and illustrated, were taken from near the head of the skeleton. The 

 one shown in Plate LXXXIII, No. i, has the notched raptorial beak and 

 uncovered cere of the hawk. The eye cavities are large, and probably 

 contained pearls. The incised lines indicating the feathers of the wings 

 and tail are even and well cut. Unlike most of the carvings of this kind, 

 the back is not perforated, but a hole was drilled upon each side, about 

 one-eighth of an inch from the lower edge, near the outline of the wing. 

 Plate LXXXIII, No. 2, is a drawing of the other hollow carving. It 

 represents a quadruped carrying in its mouth a roseate spoonbill 



