. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . specimens, found ingreat numbers on some of the skeletons, served as tinklers, and wereappareuth^ tied to garments of the deceased in much the same fasliionthat the tin cones are appended to the kilts of Snake priests in theSnake dance. The number of specimens of Conus, especially of Conus princej)S,was large, and the majority were found at the ruin in Chaves of the best pieserved of the specimens is shown in figure was piobablj a part of an ancient rattle, and the cut shows t
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . specimens, found ingreat numbers on some of the skeletons, served as tinklers, and wereappareuth^ tied to garments of the deceased in much the same fasliionthat the tin cones are appended to the kilts of Snake priests in theSnake dance. The number of specimens of Conus, especially of Conus princej)S,was large, and the majority were found at the ruin in Chaves of the best pieserved of the specimens is shown in figure was piobablj a part of an ancient rattle, and the cut shows thehole which formerly served as the place of suspension. Several ofthe smaller specimens were found near the pelvis of a skeleton, asthough they were formerly tied to kilts, as is suggested above. A single specimen of the Turritella shell was found at the Chevlonruin, but with the exception of a perforation near the lip it was notworked. At the present day Turritella is so highly esteemed thatspecimens of it are attached by a string to several of the tiponis, orpalladia, of religioiis lo 4S Sin 11 use 1 torrattle fioin Clievlon(,numbei 157847). 92 TWO summers WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS [eth. ass. 22
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