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Plate VI. 



Upper figure : Perforated disc or reel coated with thin copper. 



Middle figures : Two tortoise shells of thin beaten copper. 



Lower figure : Breast-plate or ornament of pointed flat copper rods 



banded together. 



Plate VII. 



Two views of deer's jaw, coated with copper, and covered with a casing of 

 woven and matted fabrics. 

 Pear-shaped beads, one showing fragments of original coating still adhering. 



Plate VIII. 



Figure lo, section of rabbit's hair taken near the root. 



Figures 1* and Ic, section of rabbit's hair taken near the tips. 



Figure 2, section of deer's hair taken near the root. 



Figure 3, section of animal hair forming the strands of soft fabric cover- 

 ing copper articles from mound. 



Figure 4, layer of animal cuticle from same objects. 



Figure 5, small scales of muscular fibre, forming the final coating of some 

 objects. 



