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through corrosion. At one end of the broken side are two perforations. Length, 

 about 7 inches; width, about 2 inches. (3) An ornament of thin sheet copper 

 apparently at one time coating a tube of some long-fibered substance like cane. It 

 was recovered in several fragments, but probably when entire had a length of 

 about 8 inches, with a slightly irregular diameter averaging 1.5 inches. (4) A fine 

 specimen of sheet copper, entirely unbroken, and not materially affected by cor- 

 rosion, representing the crescent moon. Distance between horns, 10.3 inches;, 

 maximum width, 1.7 inches ; thickness, .04 of one inch. About one-half inch from 

 the central part of the convex margin of the body, 1.7 inches apart, are two perfora- 

 tions by the aid of which this ornament, in early times doubtless highly polished, 

 could be fastened to the chest or suspended from the neck, the horns pointing 

 down (Fig. 60). 



Toward the center, in the eastern portion of the mound, 12 feet from the sur- 

 face, with human remains, together, associated with a pendant of shell, were : (1) 

 apparently a number of separate discs, each about 1.8 inches in diameter, of sheet 

 copper firmly cemented together through corrosion and too greatly carbonated to 

 permit any successful attempt at separation. (2) A disc of sheet copper, centrally 

 concavo-convex, about 2 inches 

 in diameter. (3) A much cor- 

 roded object of sheet copper, ap- 

 parently of the sort known as 

 spool-shaped, supposed by some 

 to have served as an ear-plug, 

 by others, as a button or stud 

 for garments. Similar objects 

 have frequently been figured as 



c /"yl • J J Fig. 61. — Ornament of sheet copper. Northernmost mound, 



coming from Ohio mounds and * Murphy island. (Fail size.) 



elsewhere. Diameter of upper and 



lower portions, about 1.8 inches. (4) An ornament of sheet copper consisting of a 



disc centrally perforated and symmetrically bent and repousse, as shown in Fig. 61, 



with section. Maximum diameter, about 2.1 inches. 



Loose in caved sand was a small disc 1 inch in diameter. Within its slight 

 concavity lay remains of wood. 



SHELL. 



Twenty-two specimens of shell drinking cups wrought from Fulgur per- 

 versum by the removal of the columella and a part of the body whorl, were taken 

 from the mound. Some were intact ; others showed an intentional perforation 

 of the bottom. So far as we could determine, these drinking cups, though coming 

 from different points, were all from within a few feet of the surface. 



The quantities of small beads so often found with interments were not met 

 with in this mound. At two points, beads from .5 of one inch to one inch in 



