. Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington . FlG. 14. From a shellgorget, 111. Fig. 15. From a shellgorget, Tenn. Fig. 16. From a shellornament, New York. liquely across the square from the right upper to the left lowercorner. This figure appears to be an elementary or unfinishedform of the device found in the center of some of the more elabo- ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 169 rately carved disks of shell. This specimen was obtained from amound on Lick Creek, Tenn., and is now in the Peabody drawing is somewhat inaccurate in detail, as it was made froma hastily executed
. Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington . FlG. 14. From a shellgorget, 111. Fig. 15. From a shellgorget, Tenn. Fig. 16. From a shellornament, New York. liquely across the square from the right upper to the left lowercorner. This figure appears to be an elementary or unfinishedform of the device found in the center of some of the more elabo- ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 169 rately carved disks of shell. This specimen was obtained from amound on Lick Creek, Tenn., and is now in the Peabody drawing is somewhat inaccurate in detail, as it was made froma hastily executed pencil sketch. Other forms from Tennessee,Illinois, and New York are shown in Figs. 14, 15, and 16. The small gorget presented in Fig. 17 is of inferior workmanship,and the lines and dots seem to have a somewhat haphazard arrange-ment; The cross, which may or may not be significant, consistsof two shallow irregular grooves, which intersect at right anglesnear the center of the disk and terminate near the border. There. Fig. 17. Shell gorget with cross, from a mound, Tennessee. are indications of an irregular, somewhat broken, concentric linenear the margin. A number of shallow conical pits have beendrilled at rather irregular intervals over most of the surface. A tri-angular fragment is lost from the lower margin of the disk. Thisspecimen was obtained from a mound on Lick Creek, East Tenn.,by Mr. Dunning. In Fig. 18 I present a large fragment of a circular shell ornament,on the convex surface of which a very curious pattern has beenengraved. The design, inclosed by a circle, represents a cross suchas would be formed by two rectangular tablets or slips, slit longi-tudinally and interlaced at right angles to each other. Betweenthe arms of the cross, in the spaces inclosed by the circular borderline, are four annular nodes, having small conical depressions in 170 TRANSACTIONS OP THE
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