. 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
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