. Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington . Fig. II. Cross from a shell gorget. The cross shown in Fig. ii is taken from a gorget similar to theone just described. ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 167 The gorget presented in Fig. 12 belongs to the collection of M. Perrine, and was obtained from a mound in Union county,Illinois. It is a little more than three inches in diameter and hasbeen ground down to a uniform thickness of about one-twelfth ofof an inch. The surfaces are smooth, and the margin is carefullyrounded and polished. Near the upper edge are two perforationsfor susp
. Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington . Fig. II. Cross from a shell gorget. The cross shown in Fig. ii is taken from a gorget similar to theone just described. ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 167 The gorget presented in Fig. 12 belongs to the collection of M. Perrine, and was obtained from a mound in Union county,Illinois. It is a little more than three inches in diameter and hasbeen ground down to a uniform thickness of about one-twelfth ofof an inch. The surfaces are smooth, and the margin is carefullyrounded and polished. Near the upper edge are two perforationsfor suspension. The cord passed between the holes on the con-cave side, wearing a shallow groove. On the convex side the cordmarks extend upward and outward, indicating the usual methodof suspension about the neck of the wearer. The cross which occu-pies the center of the concave face of the disk is quite simple. It. Fig. 12. Shell gorget with cross, from a mound in Union couuty, 111. is partially inclosed on one side by a semicircular line, and has nowno other definition than that given by four triangular perforationswhich separate the arms. The face of the cross is ornamented withsix carelessly drawn incised lines, interlacing in the center, asshown in the cut—three extending along the arm to the right andthree passing down the lower arm to the enclosing line. I have 168 TRANSACTIONS OF THE not been able to learn anything of the character of the intermentswith which this specimen was associated. The gorget shown in Fig. 13 contains a typical example of thecross of the mound builder. The border of the disk is plain, withthe exception of the usual perforations at the top. The cross isenclosed in a carelessly drawn circle; and the spaces between thearms, which in other examples are entirely cut out or filled withrays or other figures, are here decorated with a reticulated pat-
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