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ing this plate to the cloth. When found with skeletons, the plates were 

 usually on the breast or abdomen. It is very easy to distinguish the 

 copper plates from the designs and other material. There is, however, 

 such a quantity of copper worked in unusual form that much of the 

 collection is difficult to classify. 



Small copper beads were found with several skeletons, also a few 

 large beads. A few objects, probably very large beads, were found in 

 the altars, although, as they had lain directly in the hottest part of the 

 fire, it was impossible to determine whether they had been beads or 



Fig. 15. 

 Outlines of Plates. 



small cylinders. They were 3-4 cm long and 2-3 cm in diameter. I 

 believe that they were made by rolling small copper sheets, 2-3 mm in 

 thickness, together, and overlapping and hammering down the edges. 

 Many buttons and cones were found in the altars and with certain 

 skeletons. They were shaped like European buttons, and were 12-20 

 mm in diameter and 5-10 mm thick. The largest examples, which 

 have been classed as cones, were sometimes as much as 5 cm in diameter, 

 and 2-3 cm high. Some of these objects were of copper ; others, of wood 

 or clay, were covered with silver or copper. In these the metal plating 

 was thin, and appeared to have simply been hammered in place upon 

 the non-metallic base. A number of these buttons and cones are shown 

 in Fig. 16. The two largest (a and b) are about 5 cm in diameter and 

 are covered with silver; c and d show two of the small buttons with 

 the convex side up; and e and/, the reverse of the same specimens. 



