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may represent the head of the deer after the horns have been shed. 

 The projections are not unlike certain stone objects which have been 

 found in the Ohio Valley. 1 With reference to this specimen, Willoughby 

 states, "The copper portion of this head-dress is made in one piece. 

 The copper projections surrounding the wooden cores have crumbled 

 off at about one half their height. The broken tops of the copper at 

 that place show it to have been made of thin pieces of metal hammered 

 together. The head-dress is so corroded that it is impossible to work 

 out the process with exactitude. No mark of junction with the main 



a 



Fig. 19b. 

 Design from the Cincinnati Tablet. 



Fig. 19a. 



Design from a Sheet Copper 



of the Hopewell Group. 



plate shows on account of corrosion. The wooden cores have been 

 almost perfectly preserved by the salts of copper. They were very 

 carefully made, and probably served as forms over which to mould 

 the copper. Judging from the preservation of their tops, it is quite 

 evident that the copper still covered them when the mound was opened, 

 and crumbled when the earth was removed. The plate is nearly straight 

 across the forehead and round at the base." 



Several sheet-copper effigies, apparently representing eagles, were 

 found. One of these is shown in Plate LXIX, No. 3. They range from 

 26 to 35 cm in length, being about 5 mm thick and somewhat thicker 

 than the sheet-copper designs. Most of the specimens were fragmen- 

 tary, but one or two have been restored. In some cases the entire body 



•Cf. Stone Ornaments in Use among the American Indians, pp. 104, 106, 390. 



