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both sides of this curious object, which will recall to the reader the copper-coated 

 jaw and portion of the skull of a gray fox found in Mt. Royal, in which case, how- 

 ever, the bone and teeth were entirely included by the metal. 



Almost in the immediate center of the base of the mound, on the shell, 12 feet 

 from the surface, in association with a "celt" of shell and human remains, was an 

 object of copper, closely resembling, in shape, the carapace of a small turtle. Its 



Fig. 28. Copper effigy of turtle shell, Tick Island. (Full size.) 



length was 2-8 inches, its maximum diameter 2-2 inches, its height 1*2 inches (Fig. 

 28). Adherent were remains of some vegetable fabric. This ornament, for such it 

 undoubtedly was, had been constructed by placing, one above the other, two sheets 



Fig. 29. 



Tobacco pipe of gritty ware, Tick Island. 

 (Full size.) 



Fig. 30. Tobacco pipe of gritty ware, Tick 

 Island. (Full size.) 



of copper of similar shape, which shape had probably been conferred by hammer- 

 ing or pressing them over the upper shell of a turtle. At all events, such is 

 believed to have been the method in Ohio, where the scales and minor features of 



