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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the OldWorld, to which Schliemann has called particular attention ; toobserve their love of ornament from the big pile of copper ear-rings, the hundreds of shell and bone beads and the ornaments ofslate, shell, mica, and bone; to note their striving after the beauti- 430 ETHNOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY. ful in the carvings representing animals, and the ornamentaldesigns in copper and shell and the delicate etching on pieces ofbone which would do credit to a modern engraver; to judge oftheir power and the skill of their workmanship not only by theobjects of their handiwork but also by the large collection of beauti-ful obsidian implements and many of copper and stone. Here alsowas discovered a skeleton on the skull of which was found anelaborate head-dress shaped like the branching horns of the deer;this was made of wood covered with copper and of large copperplates. Pieces of fabric interwoven with beads and the largequantity of beads found with portions of the skeleton led to the
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SERPENT MOTJND MODEI/. conclusion that the dress had been elaborately ornamented. Theobjects buried with this individual also indicated a person of dis-tinction. This collection is especially noted as containing thelargest number of flint discs ever found in one deposit or store-house—about eiglit thousand. A relief map or model of this groupof earthworks forms a part of the exhibit. Among the earthworks which are shown in model is the famousSerpent Mound with the park surrounding it. As the name implies KTHNOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY. 421 this earthwork Is In the form of a serpent winding In graceful curvesalong the brow of a hill overlooking the waters of Brush Creek InAdams county. Everything In connection with this remarkableeffigy, constructed with such a vast amount of labor and located onthis elevated point surrounded by the most beautiful scenery, tendsto the conclusion that this was a sacred spot and probably a shrineof serpent worship among these ancient people, whose

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