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The American archaeologist [serial] (1898)

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is strictly northern sofar as the bear is concerned; but Fig. X X 1 \is southern. Putnam says of it: This remarkable piece, cut from a sheetof hammered copper is not only a represen-tation of the serpent head, but includes also-in the design the symbolic eyes, each withtwo arms, as in the… … Fig. LXXIII—Peculiar copper object, full size. Effigy mound,Hopewell Group. 10 THE AMERICAS ARCHAEOLOGIST. of the earth, and sometimes the water iscommon in America or elsewhere, and prob-ably formed a prominent part in ceremon-ials and in pictographic expressions of var-ious peoples.* An inferior…

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