The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol & its Migrations
Dispersion of the Swastika
Page 83
head of the "leather-back" turtle. Fig. 253 probably represents an otter with a fish in his mouth.
In trench No. 3, 15 skeletons (numbered
264 to 278, inclusive), where found on 
the
base line, all extended. Objects of coal, bone, shell, or stone, had been
placed with nearly all of them. Nos. 265 and 266 were laid on blocks of
burnt earth 3 inches higher than the base of the mound. One of the skeletons
in this mound (No. 248) is shown in pl.
13. It was a most remarkable specimen, and forms the frontispiece
of Prof. W. K. Moorehead's volume "Primitive Man in Ohio," where
it is described (p. 195) as follows:
At his head were imitation elk horns,
neatly made of wood and covered with sheet copper rolled into cylindrical
forms over the prongs. The antlers were 22 inches high and 19 inches across
from prong to prong. They fitted into a crown of 
copper
bent to fit the head from occipital to upper jaw. Copper plates were upon
the breast and stomach, also on the back. The copper preserved the bones
and a few of the sinews. It also preserved traces of cloth similar to
coffee sacking in texture, interwoven among the threads of which were
900 beautiful pearl beads, bear teeth split and cut, and hundreds of other
beads, both pearl and shell. Copper spool-shaped objects and other implements
covered the remains. A pipe of granite and a spear-head of agate were
near the right shoulder. The pipe was of very fine workmanship and highly
polished.
While digging out skeletons 280 to 284, Professor Moorehead says they touched the edge of an altar (pl. 14). It was on the base line and 15 feet north of the copper find before described. On the 5th of January, 1892, the altar was ncovered, and the earth, charcoal, and objects within it put into five soap boxes and transported to headquarters,