Plate 22 B. 
Plate 22 B (Catalog No. 21X65) Information is not available on where this gorget 
was found. Kneberg (1959, p. 15) calls the engraved design the Sca//oped Triskele 
Design and says that it is widely distributed, occurring in central as well as eastern 
Tennessee. As with the gorget shown in Plate 22 A, it has been found with burials 
of the Dallas culture and is estimated to date between A.D. 1350 and 1500. 
Kneberg deduces that the design motif may be a female symbol. Gorgets with this 
design have never been found with male burials, only with those of women or 
children. 
One writer has suggested that scalloped discs such as this may represent sun sym- 
bols. This is speculation, although the Indians in the southeastern United States, 
when first discovered by Europeans, revered the sun and might have been called sun 
worshipers with some justification. 
Similar gorgets are illustrated in Holmes, 1883, Plate LVI; in Griffin, 1952, Figure 
109G; and Kneberg, 1959, Figures 25 - 33. 
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