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Hopewell Mound Group 



of the bird does not seem to have been shown. The head is exaggerated, 

 the wings are indicated above the back rather than at the sides, and the 

 tail is spread. These effigies may have been carried on a staff or placed 



on the corners of the ceremonial 

 lodge, as were the eagle effigies which 

 Tonty saw on the corners of build- 

 ings in the lower Mississippi Valley. 

 Two wooden bear's teeth plated with 

 copper were found with skeleton 

 177. They had apparently been 

 worn as ear-pendants. They were 

 badly broken, but the wood seemed 

 to have been maple. The plating 

 was neatly done, and the seams 

 where the sides joined were care- 

 fully rubbed down, and the whole 

 surface made smooth and even. 

 There were several copper cylinders, 

 one of which is shown in Fig. 22. 

 These originally covered bone tubes. 

 They were badly decayed, and all 

 but the one shown were in frag- 

 ments. Usually they appear to be a union of three cylinders. Similar 

 copper cylinders have been found by other explorers in the mounds. 



Plates LXXII— LXXIII show 

 fragments of pure copper, hammered 

 and unhammered, and also copper 

 fused by the heat of the altars. Fully 

 thirty copper nuggets of all sizes were 

 found, these having undoubtedly 

 been brought from the Lake Superior 

 region. Most of them were found 

 in altars, but a few were with the 

 deposit covering skeletons 260 and 

 261 . Before describing these objects, 

 it is well to offer some suggestions 

 as to the source of the material. 

 Meteoric iron was found by Putnam 



in the mounds of the Turner and Liberty groups, and a few specimens 

 have also been discovered by Mills. I found a small ear-ornament of 

 this material in the Porter Mound in Frankfort, Ohio, and it is probable 



Fig. 20. 



Bone Object from a Skeleton in Mound 25, 



Showing a Figure with Copper Head-dress 



Fig. 21. 



Same Object as Fig. 20, 



the Design being Taken Apart. 



