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Identifier: ohioarchological16ohio (find matches)
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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that when the partly hammered copperwas placed in the fire to be annealed it was returned to the moldwhile hot and. rapidly hammered into shape. Fig. 28 shows the large copper axe presented by Mr. VauseHarness. This axe was taken from the mound by Mr. Harnesswhen he was a boy attending the school, some twenty-five yearsago. When Mr. Harness secured this axe a number of otherspecimens were taken from one of the graves. Mr. Harness alsopresented us two parts of an ear ornament, a perforated bearcanine and several pieces of mica. The axe is five and one-halfinches in length, two and a quarter inches in width at the.bluntend and three and three-eighths at the cutting edge, and seven-tenths of an inch in thickness, and weighs one and one-halfounces short of two pounds, and is decidedly of the plano-con-vex type. Mr. Harness tells me that this axe was taken fromnear the center of the mound, and as near as he can recall, wasnot on the base line. 156 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications.
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FlG. 28 — Copper axe. (Length five and one-half inches.) Explorations of the Edwin Harness Mound. 157 Fig. 29 is another axe of this same general type, both sidesof which are greatly corroded and covered with a finely wovenfabric. Beneath the fabric there seems to be a skin of some ani-mal with short hair. This can be seen in the figure in the righthand-corner of the cutting edge. On the opposite, or flat side,a covering of bark lies directly over the cloth. The axe is five inches in length, oneand one-half inches inwidth at the bluntend. One side grad-ually tapers to the bit,but the other side iscut off at an angle offorty-five degrees, andone inch below theblunt end the axe istwo inches wide andthen gradually tapersto the cutting edge,where it is three ando n e-h a 1 f inches inwidth. It weighs onepound and ten ounces.The axe was foundnear the left knee ofone of the uncrematedburials. Fig. 30, althoughsmall, is one of the Fig. 29-Copper axe covered with cloth. (Length mQst beautif

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  • bookyear:1887
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Ohio_State_Archaeological_and_Historical_Society
  • booksubject:History
  • booksubject:Archaeology
  • bookpublisher:Columbus___Published_for_the_Society_by_A_H__Smythe
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