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Examining tbeni soinewliat carefully since their receittion, I find there 

 are really more copjjer plates among them than at first siq^posed. 

 Those which were not too much broken to determine the exact form and 

 size are as follows : 



(1) A human figure with wings, represented in PI. xvii. This is 17 

 inches long and D inches wide. A portion of the lower ])art, as shown 

 by the figure, is wanting, probably some 3 or 4 inches. There is a break 

 across the middle, but not sufBcient to interfere with tracing out the 

 design. A crown piece of the head ornament is also wanting. This 

 plate was found in grave a. 



(2) Also a human figure, ftniud in the same grave; is shown in Fig. 

 186. Length, 16 inches; width, 7.i iiiclies. 



(3) Figure of a bird (PI. xviii). This is iiniierfect, as part of the head 

 and of theouter margin of the wings are 

 wanting. Length, 13 J inches; width, 

 7i inches. This plate shows indubitii- 

 ble evidence of having been formed of 

 smaller pieces welded together, as the 

 overlapiiing portions can be easily 

 traced. It has also xmdergone repairs ; 

 a fracture, commencing on the left and 

 running irregularly halfway across the 

 body, has been mended by placing a 

 strip of copper along it on the back 

 and riveting it to the main plate; a 

 small piece has also been riveted to 

 the head, and the head to the body; 

 several other pieces are attached in 

 the same way. The livets are small 

 and the work neatly done. This was 

 found in grave c. 



(4) An ornament or badge of some 

 kind found in grave b is shown in Fig. 187. The two crescent- shaped 

 pieces are entirely plain except some slightly impressed lines on the 

 portion connecting them with the central stem. This central stem 

 throughout its entire length and to the width of six-tenths of an inch is 

 raised, and cross strips placed at various points along the under side, 

 for the purpose of inserting a strip of bone, a part of which yet remains 

 in it and is seen in the figure where the oblique strijis meet. The most 

 important and interesting fact presented by this specimen is the evi 

 dence it furnishes that the workman who formed it made use of me- 

 tallic tools, as the cutting in this case could not possibly have been 

 done with anything except a metallic implement. A single glance at 

 it is sufficient to satisfy any one of the truth of this assertion. Length 

 of the stem, 9 inches ; width across the crescents, 7 J inches. 



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Fi(i. 187.— Copper badge from mouud c. 

 Etowah group. 



