. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC JAPAN BAELZ. 533 torical period. In the shell heaps they are of stone, horn, boar or wolf teeth, and in the graves of the iron age of glass, carnelian, rock crystal, quartz, and nephrite. They are generally perforated at the thick end and were worn on a string, together with beads and. Pig. 3.—Finer and more recent ware from northern Japan. The vase on the upper left hand Is one sixth natural size, the others one-half. Baelz col
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC JAPAN BAELZ. 533 torical period. In the shell heaps they are of stone, horn, boar or wolf teeth, and in the graves of the iron age of glass, carnelian, rock crystal, quartz, and nephrite. They are generally perforated at the thick end and were worn on a string, together with beads and. Pig. 3.—Finer and more recent ware from northern Japan. The vase on the upper left hand Is one sixth natural size, the others one-half. Baelz collection. bugles of the same material, as a necklace. Their peculiar shape has given rise to many conjectures. Probably they were originally teeth or claws of wild animals, which were worn as amulets every- where in the stone 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. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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