. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 43.—Jade maskettes. a, Offering No. 5. b, Offering No. 7. c-d, Offering No. 6. (Not to scale.) central perforation slightly off center, and four smaller perforations about the rim. The maximum diameter was 13/iq of an inch. An object which we class as a pendant, because of the fact that it was rather clearly perforated for suspension, is a small irregularly shaped thin piece of opaque light-green jade. It has two intersecting biconical perforations along its straight edge. One side is well smoothed and highly polished; the other side which would appear to be the b
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 43.—Jade maskettes. a, Offering No. 5. b, Offering No. 7. c-d, Offering No. 6. (Not to scale.) central perforation slightly off center, and four smaller perforations about the rim. The maximum diameter was 13/iq of an inch. An object which we class as a pendant, because of the fact that it was rather clearly perforated for suspension, is a small irregularly shaped thin piece of opaque light-green jade. It has two intersecting biconical perforations along its straight edge. One side is well smoothed and highly polished; the other side which would appear to be the back, is partly polished. Its dimensions are 1% inches by l1^ inches. Also included in this offering were 13 complete and incomplete spangles. These are reminiscent of the spangles found in 1943 (LV, pi. 58) except that these pieces have only one or two perforations each, and some of them more obviously represent birdheads than do those of the 1943 season. One which is particularly noteworthy is quite clearly intended to represent the head of a duck, and has two small bits of crystal set into the perforations. The shortest complete specimen is %2 of an inch long; the longest is % of an inch. At either end of the strand of beads across the offering was a large subspherical bead, approximately % of an inch in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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