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The ornament, which bore a repoussé design, was of purely aboriginal make, 
having the material pieced together here and there with the aid of small rivets, 
a well-known procedure of early aboriginal artisans in sheet-copper. 
The metal, unfortunately, had corroded away in places along the margin 
of the ornament and, in addition, went into fragments on removal, though the 
central parts by good fortune were less badly broken than were the outer ones, 
as it was centrally the principal decoration proved to be. 
Fig. 52.— Decoration on the sheet-copper. Henry Island, Ala. (Full size.) 
Most of the principal fragments have been put together with great care. 
and the interesting design they bear, a representation of the head of a man, 
so nearly as it can be made out after careful study, is faithfully shown in Fig. 52, 
Burial No. 9, eight inches below the flooring of the stone grave, was the skele- 
ton of à powerfully built male at full length on the back, entirely covered by 
the slabs above, except the skull which projected beyond the head of the super- 
imposed grave. 
'The site on Henry Island is of special interest in that the stone grave found 
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