The Stone Age in North America; An Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Implements, Ornaments, Weapons, Utensils, Etc. of the Prehistoric Tribed in North America, with More Than Three Hundred Full-Page Plates and Four Hundred Figures Illustrating Over...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...in ornamental art. The mode of manufacture of the ear ornaments, although two different types were found, was similar. One type was made of two concavo-convex plates, and were connected by a cylindrical column; but only a few pairs of this type were found. The other type, which was most common, was made of four plates ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...in ornamental art. The mode of manufacture of the ear ornaments, although two different types were found, was similar. One type was made of two concavo-convex plates, and were connected by a cylindrical column; but only a few pairs of this type were found. The other type, which was most common, was made of four plates of copper, two of which are circular, and two concavo-convex. The concavo-convex plates are attached to the circular pieces, which form the inside of the ornament. The discs are connected with a small cylinder of copper. This figure is a good illustration showing two views of the second type of ear ornaments. Other copper ornaments were found sparingly in the burial cists. From one grave a large copper crescent was removed, and from another, six large copper balls." 1 " Discussion as to Copper from the Mounds," American Anthropologist, vol. v, no. I, January-March, 1903. Sometimes the copper plates were highly ornamented and cut or trimmed. Fig. 610 is thus described by Professor Mills: --' The plate shown in this figure is perhaps the heaviest and smoothest of all the plates taken fromSeip Mound. The scroll pattern cut upon one side of the plate represents the first specimen of the kind taken from the mounds of Ohio, as far as known. The plate was wrapped in leather when it was placed in the grave, and portions still adhere to the plate, as shown in the cut." Of the interesting pendants in sheet-copper, Fig. 617, exhumed from a mound in Moundville, Alabama, Mr. Moore has to say: --"The upper part of the pendant has parts excised to form a sixpointed star within a circle. On the body of the star, repoussS, is a symbol to which we shall revert later. Below is an excised triangle; beneath which is part of an arm encircled ...
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