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One pendant, with a length of 3.7 inches and a maximum width of 1.5 inches, 

 has no decoration except marginal indentations. 



Two other pendants are too much corroded for exact description. 



Fig. 49.— Pendants of sheet copper. Mound on Charlotte Thompson Place. (Full size.) 



One pendant, about 4 inches long and with a maximum width of 2 inches, is 

 of much more solid material than the others. It is badly corroded. Still clinging to 



Wit is a remnant of cord upon which a number of 

 shell beads are strung. 

 All decoration on the pendants is of purely 

 aboriginal design. We shall describe and illustrate 

 this type more fully in our account of the mounds 

 in the " Thirty- Acre Field." 

 A pair of sheet copper pendants found end to 

 end extending across the vertex of a cranium, have 

 a wavy outline common to both but not exactly 

 coinciding. The material of one is thicker than 

 that of the other (Fig. 50). 

 Breast-pieces. — We call by this name oblong 

 plates of sheet copper with two or three holes in 

 the middle, presumably for attachment to garments. 

 FlG ^dTnC^ttTLr p P son Five such pieces were present in this mound, 



Place. (Full size.) Qne somew h a t broken by pressure against a bone. 



Two, 4 inches by 8 inches, and 3.5 inches by 8.5 inches, respectively, seem to 



