Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . ves beyonda doubt that they were used as ear ornaments. In this connection hespeaks of these same ornaments taken from the Liberty Group, nowknown as the Harness Group. Explorations of the Edwin Harness Mound. 151 The concavo-convex plates were evidently made over a woodenpattern and the copper hammered into Fig. 20 shows one of the types frequently met with. It ismade of four plates of copper, two of which are circular plates,pierced at the center with a hole, and these two plates are con-nected together with a small cylinder of copper abo
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . ves beyonda doubt that they were used as ear ornaments. In this connection hespeaks of these same ornaments taken from the Liberty Group, nowknown as the Harness Group. Explorations of the Edwin Harness Mound. 151 The concavo-convex plates were evidently made over a woodenpattern and the copper hammered into Fig. 20 shows one of the types frequently met with. It ismade of four plates of copper, two of which are circular plates,pierced at the center with a hole, and these two plates are con-nected together with a small cylinder of copper about three-quarters of an inch in length passing through the holes andclinched on the inside. The space between the two circular disksvaries from a quarter to half an inch. The next process in themanufacture of the ornaments is the putting in place of theconcavo-convex disks. Before this is done the concavo-convexdisk at the center of the concave portion is extended by hammer-ing so as to fit into the cylindrical column and is then
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