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The reason for our change of opinion in regard to these pendants is that cer- 
tain markings are present, which in the Moundville specimens seem to indicate 
the bill of a bird. Also the presence of the eye seems to point more to an animal 
than to an arrowhead; although, for that matter, 
there is no reason why an aborigine should not 
have placed an eye upon an arrowhead with the 
same intention as the Chinese have when painting 
it upon their boats. 
A number of other bird-head pendants of 
sheet-copper, in fragments, some decorated with 
the eye, some not, were found at our second inves- 
tigation. 
We obtained also, with various burials, six 
entire, or almost entire, sheet-copper pendants, 
elongated-oval in outline, each having excised and 
repoussé decoration, including the swastika within 
а circle, and the triangle. These pendants, rang- 
ing between 6.1 inches and 2.6 inches in length, 
resemble in type some figured in our former re- 
port; one (Fig. 102) lay at the neck of an infant 
Еіс. 102.—Pendant of sheet- pia with 
Burial Хо. 148. (Full s 
(Burial Number 148), with a few 
shell beads. 
Another pendant (Fig. 105) 
lay near the skull of Burial Num- 
ber 65, a badly decayed skeleton 
Fic. 103.—Sheet-cop- 
per Ке show- Fic 
т? Жа +. 104.— Pendant of sheet- 
ан ses en oi capper with pearl attached. of an adult, at full length on the 
(Full z : . 
back, in a grave cut into the solid 
clay of the base, in the ground south of Mound D. With the pendant, which has 
a repoussé swastika (all the others found having this cross through excision), was 
a small euboidal mass of galena (lead sulphide). 
Still another pendant (Fig. 104) lay near the skull of Burial Number 132, a 
aboriginal disturbance. This pendant has a large, perforated pearl, through which 
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