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covery; and a shell ornament resembling two globes fastened together, one some- 
what smaller than the other was found. 
With a burial was a mussel-shell ( Unto forbeszanus) showing wear at one end. 
The skeleton of an adult, lying at full length on the back, had the skull rest- 
ing in a bowl—an accidental position, not an urn-burial. In the bowl were several 
pebbles and a shell ( Doszuza discus), perforated for suspension. 
Apart from human remains in the ground south of Mound D, was a mass of 
mussel-shells, some single, some in pairs, among which were 77z77gonza tuberculata, 
Unto crassidens, Quadrula cornuta, О. pustulosa, Q. pyramidata. 
With a burial were fragments apparently of a gorget, resembling calcite, 
which, however, proved upon microscopic exam- 
ination to be лла shell. 
COPPER OBJECTS. 
In our first investigation at Moundville, with 
the exception of one copper fish-hook, and a few 
fragments of sheet-copper lying in one place, no 
copper was found by us except in cemeteries on 
certain of the mounds, where many ceremonial 
axes of copper and ornaments of sheet-copper 
were unearthed. We know the followers of 
De Soto saw chiefs dwelling on mounds, with their 
people living around them on the level ground 
below. It is reasonable to suppose that the prin- 
cipal men were buried on the mounds and that 
these men were more richly endowed with objects 
of value than were their followers who were 
buried on the plain. However, on our second in- 
vestigation, which was confined practically to the 
flat country around the mounds, while no arti- 
facts of solid copper were found, we were fortu- 
nate enough to obtain some objects of sheet- 
copper and of wood copper-coated. 
On the face of Burial Number 164, a full- 
length skeleton lying on the back, in the ground 
south of Mound D, was a most interesting pend- 
ant of sheet-copper, one side of which is shown 
in half-tone reproduction in Fig. 100; and a 
drawing of the other side, after we had ventured 
on additional cleaning, is represented in Fig. 101. Fre, 100.--Репбалі of | rel 
The upper part of the pendant has parts ex- 
cised to form a six-pointed star within a circle. On the body of the star, repoussé, 
is a symbol to which we shall revert later. Below is an excised triangle; beneath 
