398 MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
ing perhaps the man-eagle,' the serrated marking on the neck seemingly indicating 
the eagle. | 
At the time of our first visit to Moundville, we found a shell gorget which 18 
referred to in our report (page 172). This gorget was so thickly covered with 
patina that the details of the decoration upon it were not distinguishable. Consid- 
erable work was done with a view 
to the removal of the coating, but 
satisfactory results were not ob- 
tained. 
Since the publication of the 
report, however, much attention 
has been given to this gorget, and 
we are now able to reproduce the 
greater part of the design (Fig. 98). 
This design, the lines of which 
exceed in delicacy those upon any 
shell gorget ever found by us, rep- 
resents a figure, the head of which, 
unfortunately, is in part indistin- 
euishable. Тһе series of squares 
above the head 1s no doubt part of 
a head-dress, though its connection 
with the head is not traceable. Other details also are too indistinct to be included 
іп the drawing. 
This gorget evidently belongs to the same class as that of some from the Mis- 
sissippi Valley, the claw-hands calling to mind the claw-feet of the fighting figures 
on the shell gorget from Tennessee shown by Holmes? 
With many burials were shell beads (with nineteen in the 
ground south of Mound D), some globular, almost one inch in 
diameter; some very minute. There were also small spool-shaped 
beads and tubular ones; and, in one instance, perforated, flat, pent- 
agonal, and hexagonal sections of shell. With these beads in 
several instances were pearls perforated for stringing. 
А beautiful little pendant of shell, to which we have already 
referred in describing the so-called * hoe-shaped” implements of 
stone, is in the form of a ceremonial axe with the ring at the end 
of the handle, for suspension (Fig. 99). 
Several hair-pins of shell, as well as a number of objects Ё. 
resembling hair-pins but shorter and more rounded at the point, ris 99. Pendant of 
were encountered. eau с 
A small spool-shaped object of shell went to pieces after dis. (Ұз. 
1 See “Eagle.” “Handbook of American Indians." 
* W. H. Holmes. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn. 1880-81, Plate LXXIV. 
Ес. 98.— Decoration on shell gorget. (Full size.) 
