. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. o m M Fig. 35. Marine shell ornaments: 'pendants' with plain edges. A, D-E, J-L. Layer 5. B, G-H. Layer 6. C, I. Layer 4. F. Layer 7. M, O. Layer 1. N. Layer 2. P. Layer 8. All but three of the pendants are made of Turbo sarmaticus. They consist mostly of the nacreous inner shell, the periostracum having fallen away or been removed, and in every case the perforations have been drilled from the inner surface of the shell. The three not made of Turbo sarmaticus are two of Haliotis midae from layers 1 a
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. o m M Fig. 35. Marine shell ornaments: 'pendants' with plain edges. A, D-E, J-L. Layer 5. B, G-H. Layer 6. C, I. Layer 4. F. Layer 7. M, O. Layer 1. N. Layer 2. P. Layer 8. All but three of the pendants are made of Turbo sarmaticus. They consist mostly of the nacreous inner shell, the periostracum having fallen away or been removed, and in every case the perforations have been drilled from the inner surface of the shell. The three not made of Turbo sarmaticus are two of Haliotis midae from layers 1 and 4 (Fig. 36J-K), and one from layer 6 made from the apex of a Patella species (Fig. 36V). Whether or not the unperforated pendants are merely unfinished pieces is hard to determine. A particular type with denticulate edges (Fig. 36N-Q), of which there were 2 in layer 4, 4 in layer 5 and 1 in layer 9, has no perforations, nor are there any like it in the sample that do. This suggests that they were possibly not intended to be perforated. Kolb (1738: 197) observed that the. 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 South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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