400 MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
which is part of an arm encircled by a string of beads and an extended hand 
bearing on it the open eye, all repoussé. 
The symbol to which we have referred has been deseribed by us in our first 
report! on Moundville, and by others, as the open 
eye. Subsequent discoveries have modified our 
views. 
On our second investigation at Moundville, we 
found two water-bottles bearing the same symbol 
incised as a form of decoration (Figs. 41, 42). It 
also figures on the copper pendant we are describ- 
ing and on a vessel (Figs. 57, 38) where it appears 
in a modified form beneath the tail of a woodpecker 
--а singular position for an eye. 
On the hand which figures on the gorget is 
the unmistakable Moundville eye, found at that 
place on many occasions. It seems unlikely that 
different forms of the eye should be shown on the 
same gorget. 
Furthermore, the symbol in question is always? 
represented with the angles in a vertical line, while 
the eye most familiar to the pottery, copper, and 
stone of Moundville, as well as the human eye 
which it represents, have the extremities in a 
horizontal line. 
On the whole, whatever the symbol under dis- 
cussion may stand for, it seems doubtful that it is a 
representation of the human eye. 
In contact with the temporal bones of Burial 
Number 40 (the adult burial with the infant 
already described), probably three on each side, 
were pendants of sheet-copper, some in fragments. 
ааа ade. rusas)" These pendants, which bear no decoration, resemble 
in form the arrowhead-shaped pendants, each 
stamped with an eye and other markings, found by us at Moundville on our first 
visit, and figured in our first report. We described these pendants as repre- 
senting arrowheads, but we are now inclined to believe that they are bird-head 
pendants. "These particular ones perhaps represent the head of the woodpecker. 
Pendants of the same type, but somewhat dissimilar in detail, were found by 
us in mounds of the Alabama River above and below Montgomery. Опе of these 
pendants, however, we believe represents the head of a M being 
indicated. 
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r gor shown in our first r report being too thickly coated with carbonate to permit 
finding the Ы for таныды. and thus to learn where the top of the gorget was, was DIF 
placed in the photograph. 
