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The Antiquarian [serial] (1897)

Columbus, Ohio : Landon Print. and Pub. Co. · leaf 69

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be the offspring of the same beliefs and cus-toms and the same culture as the art of Mex-ico. Holmes, 1. c. 305. We have now to describe another en-graved gorget of shell on which a humanfigure is represented. The specimen is partof the Rycrson collection, now at the Uni-versity of Chicago. It was… … there is absolutely no question. As theUnited States specimens, it is a thin, con-cavo-convex plate. The inner, concaveface, is the one carved. The gorget is near-ly circular, measuring 106mm- in height and100mm- in breadth. In thickness it meas-ures from 3 to 4mm- In the catalogue ofthe collection…

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