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armlets and bracelets, consisting of hammered rods about the thickness of a 

 lead-pencil, and bent into a circular or oval form until their ends meet. These 

 specimens were obtained from mounds in Indiana and West Virginia. Similar 



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bronze ornaments are met in collections of European antiquities. Copper 

 beads are well represented in the collection. They consist of coarse wire 

 oi- small pieces of copper closely wound and hammered together (Fig. 233, 

 mound in Ohio), or, more generally, of strips of copper sheet bent into the 



