. Bulletin. Ethnology. 848 METAL-WORK [b. a. e. The four metals, copper, gold, silver, and iron (meteoric), were shaped mainly by cold-hammering and grinding, but heat no doubt was employed to facilitate the hammering proce.«ses and in annealing. It is believed that copper was sometimes swedged, or in sheet form pressed into molds. But the remarkable repousse fig- ures representing elaborately costumed. REPOUSSE FIGURE IN SHEET-COPPER, FROM A GEORGIA MOUND. (thomas) and winged personages in sheet metal, found in mounds in Georgia (Thomas), and other more highly conventionalized figures from Fl
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 848 METAL-WORK [b. a. e. The four metals, copper, gold, silver, and iron (meteoric), were shaped mainly by cold-hammering and grinding, but heat no doubt was employed to facilitate the hammering proce.«ses and in annealing. It is believed that copper was sometimes swedged, or in sheet form pressed into molds. But the remarkable repousse fig- ures representing elaborately costumed. REPOUSSE FIGURE IN SHEET-COPPER, FROM A GEORGIA MOUND. (thomas) and winged personages in sheet metal, found in mounds in Georgia (Thomas), and other more highly conventionalized figures from Florida mounds (Moore), give evidence of a degree of skill seem- ingly outof keeping with what is known of the general accomplishments of the north- ern tribes. Gushing, however, has demon- strated that repousse work of like char-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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