. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . identify was found at the Chevlon ruin(figure 51). The figure was elongated, with twolateral extensions arranged in pairs on each side,and suggested a highly conventionalized author has no suggestion to make in regard to its former use,and only two specimens of shell carved in thisshape were found by 13^ Besides these more common .shells, many speci-mens of Melougena patula, Oliva angulata, andFig. 51. Shell object Qllva biplicata or hiatula were obtained. The crescentic shell
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . identify was found at the Chevlon ruin(figure 51). The figure was elongated, with twolateral extensions arranged in pairs on each side,and suggested a highly conventionalized author has no suggestion to make in regard to its former use,and only two specimens of shell carved in thisshape were found by 13^ Besides these more common .shells, many speci-mens of Melougena patula, Oliva angulata, andFig. 51. Shell object Qllva biplicata or hiatula were obtained. The crescentic shell ornament .shown in figure 52,which was evidently hung to .some part of thebody by the hole midway in its length, may have been a gorget,or possibly a pendant for anecklace. Its form is unique. In addition to the specimensof sea shells which preservedenough of their natural formto render identification possi-ble, the author collected manyfragments of unknown relationship,ity of these belong to some one of the species already unidentified fragments perhaps the most numerous were shell. Fig. 50. Shell frogfrom Chevlou (num-ber 15T833I. Lengthabout li inches. from Chevlon i num-ber ^?^-csr^ Fig. .52. Shell gorget from Chevlon (number It is probable that the major-
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