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fabric, has circular, concave spaces in the center of the upper and lower portions. 

 The whole outer surface of the upper halves is coated with thin sheet-silver, which, 

 loose in places, has turned up and over. The upper and lower discs were separated 

 by a mass of vegetable liber through which ran a cord. This cord, passing through 

 a perforation in the middle of the central concavity, on the outside of each upper 

 part is knotted around a pearl which is pierced. The upper and the lower part of 

 one of these ear-plugs is shown in Fig. 59. 



Fig. 60.— Ornament of slieet-copper. Mounrl near Crystal river. (Three-quarters size. 



Fig. 61.— Ornament of slieet-copper. Mound near Crystal river. (Full size.) 



Badly broken when found, was an oblong ornament of sheet-copper (Fig. 60), 

 rather rudely decorated with punctate markings and showing a cruder form of 

 aboriginal effort in repoussi' decoration, though in direct line with more ambitious 

 Avork. 



