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Close up of marine shell gorget from Perry County, Missouri showing forked-eye motif.

MacCurdy, G.C. 1913. Shell Gorgets from Missouri. American Anthropologist XV, 3:395-414. SEE ALSO Brown, J.A. 1985. The Mississippian Period. In Ancient Art of the American Woodland Indians, edited by D.S. Brose, J.A. Brown, and D.W. Penney, photographs by D. Bakker, pp. 93-145. Harry N. Abrams, NY. Plate 49 (Brown 1985; Fig. 18, p.114)