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Fig. 5. — Circular beads made from a marine shell. Found in excavation No. 2 in 

 the "serpent" mound. 



Fig. 6. — Cowry shell, Cyprcea moneta, ploughed up in a field near the mounds in Peter- 

 borough county. 



Fig. 7. — Pendant made from the marine shell, Fiilgur perversa. Found in excavation 

 No. 2 in the "serpent" mound. 



Fig. 8. — Copper celt or axe, six inches long. Found in field near the mounds. 



Fig. 9. — Copper spear, ten inches long. Ploughed up in field five miles north of the 

 mounds. 



Fig. 10. — Copper knife, showing both sides of blade. One foot in length. Ploughed 

 out of the ground in a field about five miles north of the mounds. 



Fig. II. — Pipe of pottery, decorated. Two inches high, and the stem two inches long. 

 Ploughed up in a field five miles north of mounds. 



Fig. 12. — Sherds of pottery, showing decoration. Found near the mounds. 



Fig. 13. — -Sherd of pottery decorated by a textile impression. Found in the "serpent" 

 mound, October 1909. 



Fig. 14. — Knife or scraper of mottled limestone, showing ridge for a handle. Seven 

 inches long. Edge part is somewhat broken. Found in field near the 

 mounds. 



Fig. 15. — Banner stone of haematitic slate, with a single perforation. Five inches 

 in length. Ploughed up near the mounds. 



Fig. 16. — -Two views of a hornblende adze found near the mounds. Eight inches long. 

 Heavy, owing to the presence of magnetic iron ore in it. 



Fig. 17. — ^Hornblende celt or chisel. Found near the mounds. 



Fig. 18. — Facial view of human skull taken out of excavation No. 3 in the "serpent" 

 mound, October, 1909. 



Fig. 19. — Facial view of Huron cranium found in an ossuary, county of Durham, 

 Ontario, by H. Montgomery, in 1878. 



Fig. 20. — Facial view of human skull taken out a mound in Dakota Territory by H. 

 Montgomery in 1889. 



Fig. 21. — Lateral view of human skull (whose facial view is seen in Fig. 18) from the 

 "serpent" mound. 



Fig. 22. — Laterial view of human cranium (whose facial view is shown in Fig. 19) 

 from a Huron ossuary. 



