The Swastika
Dispersion of the Swastika
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semicircles, bars, etc.; two spool-shaped objects; four comb-shaped effigies;
one wheel with peculair circles and bars of copper; three long plates
of copperl; pearl and shell beads and teeth; a lot of extra fine pearls;
a lot of wood, beads, and an unknown metal; a lot of bones; a human jaw,
very large; a fragmentary fish resembling a sucker (fig. 248); one stool
of copper with two legs; broken copper plates; one broken shell; bear
and panther tusks;mica plates; forty fragmentary and entire copper stencils
of squares, circles, diamonds, hearts, etc; copper objects, saw-shaped;
twenty ceremonial objectsm, rusted or oxidized copper; two diamond-shaped
stencils, copper (fig. 249); four peculiar spool-shaped copper ornaments,
perforated, showing repoussé work (fig.
250).
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made sketches or two or three of the bone carvings, for the purpose of
showing the art of the people who constructed this monument, so that by
comparison with that of other known peoples some knowledge may be obtained,
or theory advanced, concerning the race or tribe to whcih they belonged
and the epoch in which they lived. Fig.
251 shows an exquisite bone carving of a paroquet which belongs much
farther south and not found in that locality in modern times. The design
shwon in fig. 252 suggests a
Mississippi Kite, but the zoologists of the Museum, while unable to determine
with exactitude its intended representation, chiefly form the mutilated
condition of the fragment, report it more likely to be the << Previous Page Next Page >>
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