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vegetable fiber passes, attaching it on the outer side of the pendant over the two 
holes for suspension. Several other copper pendants found by us in fragments had 
pearls fastened in a similar way. 
Burial Number 162, the skeleton of an adult, at full length on the back, from 
the ground south of Mound D, had shell beads at the shoulder and on the pelvis, 
encased in wood (as the copper found by us ordinarily is), a fine, large, sheet-copper 
pendant below the chin, the broad 
Fie. 105.—Gorget of sheet-copper showing swastika, with pearl 
attached. (Full size.) Е 
end uppermost. Under the chin 
and over the right clavicle was an 
elliptical gorget of sheet-copper (Fig. 
105) having a pearl fastened to it 
in the manner already described. 
With an aboriginal disturbance 
were two sheet-copper discs, each 
about 1.25 inches in diameter, and 
each having a boss centrally per- 
forated. "These discs lay at the feet, 
the bone of one great toe being 
green by contact. With them was 
a mass of red paint, determined 
chemically to be hematite, and the 
knuckle-bone of a deer. These 
discs, which somewhat resemble 
those shown by LeMoyne as worn 
on the legs of Florida Indians, were, however, probably ear-plugs transferred from 
their original position by an aboriginal disturbance. 
Burial Number 34, a skeleton of an adult, fully extended on the back, had 
shell beads on both wrists. At each side of the head 
was a dise of wood, about 1.5 inches in diameter, with 
central boss, copper-coated. On the copper had been 
a covering of wood or bark, a part of which, badly 
decayed, still remains. Extending from the middle of 
the under side of each dise is a pin of bone, which, no 
doubt, worn through the lobe of the ear, connected 
the “іне in front with another of some perishable material 
behind the lobe (Fig. 106). 
Two pairs of dises, with pins, similar to those above 
described, were found—each pair with a burial. 
One wooden disc, copper-coated, two inches іп 
diameter—probably an ear-plug—lay with Burial Num- 
ber 9 in the field near Mound M. 
A most interesting object, probably a rattle, made 
Fie. 106.—Ear-plug of wood and 
sheet-copper, with bone connec- 
tion. (Full size.) 
of wood overlaid with copper, unfortunately fell into small fragments on removal. 
