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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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these in-teresting imitation antlers were secured — one set witha single tine, a second set with 3 tines and a third with4 tines each. The single-tine set are made from copperhammered to a thickness of Vie of an inch, and thenrolled into the proper shape and dimension to form thehorn. The sets of 3 and 4 tined antlers are shown as Fig.69. The method of attachment to the fabric is plainlyvisible in the photograph, that of the 3-tined set beingby means of tabs at the base, to be passed through thecloth or skin and clinched, while that of the 4-tined setis by means of a cord passing through perforations atthe base and through the fabric. Effigy antlers of copper are exceedingly unusual inthe mounds of Ohio, and the above examples are the Exploration of the Mound City Group 545 only ones brought to light by the surveys of this institu-tion. Professor W. K. Moorehead, in his examinationof the Hopewell group, a few miles west from MoundCity, secured an antler head-dress,* which, together
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Fig. 69. Deer effigy head-dress of copper. with those above described, constitute the only speci-mens recorded from Ohio mounds. An effigy horn of copper, apparently representing thehorn of the mountain goat, was taken from burial num-ber 12, of mound number 7. This object, which ap-parently formed the central and principal part of a *The Antiquarian, Vol. I.Vol. XXXI—35. 546 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications head-dress, is shown as Fig. 70. The specimen is 10inches in length, 2 inches in diameter at the center, andis boldly corrugated from base to tip. From the ap-pearance of the specimen, it is not improbable that itconsisted originially of a genuine horn, over which thecopper plate was fashioned as a covering. No evidenceremained, however, of the original horn. No recordexists of the presence in Ohio of the mountain goat,either in historic or prehistoric times, hence the infer-ence is that it may easily have been a product of com-merce with the aborigines of the Mound Cit

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