PREHISTORIC ART. 



501 



l)lates covered witli lepouss '' work, though not of the same designs as 

 tlie foregoing. The author woukl Hgure them on tliis occasion did not 

 time i)ress. 



Other thinly wrought copper plates have been found in the interior 

 States of the United States, notably Illinois and Ohio. Fig. 151 repre- 

 sents a copper plate taken 

 from an Illinois mound, with 

 an eagle or bird upon it. Fig. 

 152 represents another cop- 

 per plate, nlso from Illinois, 

 on which are two nak( d hu- 

 man figures in grotesque atti- 

 tudes, as though of astonish- 

 ment or fear. 



HopeioeU mound art. — The 

 Hojiewell mound, near Chilli- 

 cothe, Koss County, Ohio, 

 was excavated by Prof. War- 

 ren K. Moorehead for the 

 benefit of the Department of 

 Ethnology at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition, Chi- 

 cago. It was an immense con- 

 strnction, 530 feet long, 250 

 feet wide, with an original 

 height of 32 feet, but when 

 opened was only 16 or 18 feet 

 to its original foundation. 

 A considerable number of 

 elaborately wrought copper 

 objects were found at or near 

 the bottom of the mound and 

 in the center. Plate 01 rep- 

 resents most of these. All 

 were tlat, thin, smooth, 

 though not polislied, and had 

 been cuit into the various de- 

 signs as rei)resented. One 

 of the objects is the swastika, 

 of which five specimens were 

 found; the rest were mostly 

 geometric designs cut out of 

 thin* copper plates as shown. There were no engravings or repousse 

 work on any of the copper objects found, witli the exception of one, a 

 si)ool or pulley-shaped ornament which was hammered and crimped 

 as shown in fig. 153. Two other objects were found in copper, and are 

 proper to be introduced on account of their art. Plate 62 represents 



Fig. 150. 



HFMAN FlfiUUE. THIN COPPER PLATE, REPOUSSE. 



Moiiud C* Etowah group, Georgia. 



riiom.is, Twi-lfth Ann. R<ipt. Bur. Ethnol., lS90-91,p. a04, Hl'. InO. 

 Cut. No. 3111:!, U.S.N.M. If, iiatur.il size. 



