102 BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE NORTHERN SE: TIONS. 
3. Figure of a bird; this isimperfect, as part of the head and the outer 
margin of the wings are wanting. Length, 154inches; width 74 inches. 
This plate shows indubitable evidence of having been formed of smaller 
pieces welded together, as the overlapping portions can be easily traced. 
It has also undergone repairs: a fracture commencing on the left mar- 
gin and running irregularly half-way across the body has been mended 
by placing a strip of copper along it on the under side 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 rivets are small and the work is neatly done. 
4, An ornament or badge of some kind, shown in Fig. 44. The two 
crescent-shaped pieces are entirely plain, except some slightly impressed 
lines on the portion connecting them with the central stem. This cen- 
tral stem, throughout its entire length and to the width of six-tenths of 

Fic. 44.—Copper badge, from Etowah mound, Georgia. 
an inch, is raised, and cross strips are placed at various points along 
the under side for the purpose of inserting a slip of bone, a part of 
which yet remains in it, and is seen in the figure at the break imme- 
diately below the point where the oblique strips meet. This specimen 
presents, as I believe, indubitable evidence that the workmen who 
formed it made use ef metallic tools, as the cutting in this case could 
not possibly have been done with anything except a metallic implement. 
A single glance atit is sufficient to satisfy any one of the truth of this 
assertion. Length of the stem, 9 inches ; width across the crescents, 74 
inches. 
5. Part of an ornament similar to No.4. These plates, especially No. 4, 
appear to be enlarged patterns of that seen behind the head of Fig. 43. 
