Plate 23 A. 
Plate 23 A (Catalog No. 21X399) This badly weathered shell gorget bears the nota- 
tion “Mound, W. Va.” The design has been called a rattlesnake design by Holmes 
and Kneberg because on others in better condition than this one, a 
conventionalized rattlesnake may be discerned. A gorget with a rattlesnake design 
was found with a burial which also contained iron trade items in North Carolina 
(Thomas, 1893, pp. 336 - 338) and hence such gorgets probably are late. Kneberg 
estimates they date from A.D. 1450 to 1750. Illustrations of gorgets of this type 
may be seen in Holmes, 1883, plate LVIII; Griffin, 1952, Figure 109G and Kneberg, 
1959, Figures 39 - 50. 
Plate 23 B. 
Plate 23 B (Catalog No. 21X400) Information is not available on where this gorget 
was found. Designs similar to the looped strands which appear on this engraved 
8orget are shown with representations of woodpeckers in Holmes, 1883, Plates 
LVIIl and LVIX. The elements in these illustrations cross alternately instead of 
in pairs, as on this gorget. 
