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a sixteenth of an inch in depth, and then the inclosed space was cut down, 

 or rubbed down, to about half the depth of the outlines. In this man- 

 ner the hand was shown very distinctly. The edge at the thumb 

 was resting on the ground, and at the little finger on the top of the 

 obert nodule ; thus the hand faced the east, the fingers pointing to- 

 ward the south. The mass of superincumbent earth had broken this 

 disk into several pieces, as there was when buried nothing under the 

 middle to support it. To the left of this specimen and the nodules of 

 chert were found a piece of galena weighing about 7^ pounds, and a cir- 

 cular piece of mica about 14 or 15 inches in diameter and about one- 

 half inch thick. 



Still further to the left, at the points marked g and h in the cut, were 

 found two copper axes (Fig. 10, « Z>, d-e), one weighing 7^- pounds and 

 measuring lOJ inches in length and 4^^^ in width at the cutting edge. 

 Fig. 10, c, shows the texture of matting found around the copjier axes. 



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Fig. 10. Copper axes and matting, from mound near JSTaplca, 111. 



With this ax were found four very fine arrow-heads (Fig. 12) ; two 

 knives (Fig. 11 and Fig. 13, h) ; a finely worked spear-head (Fig. 13, a) ; 

 and a very fine chipped ceremonial ornament (Fig. 14, a). The latter 

 consists of a dark piece of chert, with two wings upon each side. The 

 base and point are a modified form of the arrow-point. 



There was also found a regular mound pipe made of a soft, white stone, 

 very much decayed (Fig. 14 h.) The articles that were buried with 

 these two persons are all represented in Figs. 11, 12, 13, and 14. A 

 little southeast of the heads of these skeletons, at a distance of about 

 8 or 10 feet, at the point marked t, in Fig. 8, was found another skele- 

 ton in a sitting posture. Judging from the character of the bones and 



