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Hopewell Mound Group 



found with this specimen, are decorated with similar double rows of 

 dots, one specimen having fourteen of these shallow depressions, and 

 its companion sixteen. These dots do not encircle the ends of the teeth, 

 but appear only upon the side having the pearls. Here I should like to 

 call attention to the number of well-executed carvings on both bone and 

 antler, which were found with this same skeleton 278. Many of the 

 canine teeth of the wolf, fox, opossum, and other mammals, with one 

 perforation near the end of the tooth, were taken from the two altars in 

 the large mound. Some of these small teeth have the two diagonal 

 holes upon one side for the passage of the thread, which probably secured 



Fig. 56. 

 Outlines Showing Perforationrs in Bears' Teeth. 



them to the ancient dress of their owner. Over five hundred of the canine 

 teeth having a single perforation were found with skeleton 207 in Mound 

 23. Several are still held in place by a lump of clay, which shows them 

 to have been strung upon a cord when deposited with the body. 

 Fragments of the cut jaws of the bear, deer, lynx, fox, and man, were 

 taken from the altars or found with skeletons." 



Carvings on Bone. — The number of effigies and bone tracings 

 found leads us to conclude that the Hopewell people possessed many of 

 these artistically carved objects. Those placed in the altars had suffered 

 more than any other objects, except possibly the shell gorgets, and most 

 of those shown "in Figs. 59 — 68 have been restored. The specimen in 

 Fig. 59 has been partly broken, but enough remains to show a design 

 similar to some of those upon sheet copper. At one end are what appear 

 to be bears' claws, or a bear's-foot symbol. The broken end appears to 

 have borne a different design. Fig. 60 shows a bird's head carved from 

 either bone or antler. There is a small perforation for suspension at 



