STARR A SHELL GORGET FROM MEXICO. 



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with a zigzag line from the hair over the temples vertically down the 

 face. Both wear large ear-rings, and appear to have the curious mouth 

 object. Georgia. 



(y"). Fragmentary. Winged figure kneeling. The nose is eagle- 

 beaked. There is a peculiar tatoo (?) about the mouth. There is an 

 object before the mouth somewhat like those already described, but 

 not actually connected with it. It appears, however, to be attached to 

 the head-dress. There is a belt and pendent at the waist. Cicorgia. 



(^). The Douglass tablet from Missouri presents little of great sig- 

 nificance for our comparison. Through Gen. Thruston's politeness it 

 is here reproduced. Notice the belt and the suspended apron. 



Of this gorget General Thruston says : * 



"The very peculiar skirt or appendage hanging to the waist-belt appears 

 in both the copper-plate figures from the Etowah mound, which had not 



* Antiquities of Tennessee, p. 346. 



