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Helen Cropper Collection
Description: This silver formee cross pendant has a loop at the top. At the intersection of the beams of the cross is a circle. The beams of the cross flare out from the circle and the base of the cross has a concave edge. The tips of the side beams are scalloped. There is an hand-engraved zigzag pattern that runs parallel to the edges of the beams of the cross with triangles in the center. In the center are two incomplete hemispheres. This peice is from the Historic Period. The Historic Period in North America began in the late 1400s when Europeans wrote down accounts of their experiences in the New World. It did not begin in Ohio, however, until 1650 when French map makers first depicted the southern shore of Lake Erie on their maps. Although nearly two centuries had passed before Europeans arrived in the Ohio area, their presence on the east coast greatly affected the Indians of the interior. The Indians of the Historic Period used many European-made tools. Still, they did not immediately give up all their traditional crafts, such as chipping flint arrow points. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3692_000002
Subjects: Indians of North America;
Places: Helen Cropper Collection