. Bulletin. Ethnology. 126 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 174 . . The dark blue heavily encrusted iridescent beads are of the type that has occurred most frequently on sites in Alabama, Georgia, California, and Illinois, and occasionally in Pennsylvania and New York. These are found associated with material pertaining to the early to late 18th century, the average span being from around 1700 to about 1780. I have none of these from the later 19th century sites, nor from those sites of the early or middle 17th century. Other site locations for these beads are Ft. Moore, Ga., where trade go
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 126 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 174 . . The dark blue heavily encrusted iridescent beads are of the type that has occurred most frequently on sites in Alabama, Georgia, California, and Illinois, and occasionally in Pennsylvania and New York. These are found associated with material pertaining to the early to late 18th century, the average span being from around 1700 to about 1780. I have none of these from the later 19th century sites, nor from those sites of the early or middle 17th century. Other site locations for these beads are Ft. Moore, Ga., where trade goods were carried c. 1690; 18th century sites near Santa Barbara, Calif., 1769-1800; Burial 18, Trading Post site, middle section Macon Plateau, near post. Smiths, Exp. 1936; from Roots, 111., a burial. The beads vary in length and diameter but have the same characteristic color and shape. Your specimens are more iridescent than most of the beads and this may or may not indicate longer contact with the soil. As you no doubt know, there is no gauge by which we can judge the time it takes for glass to become iridescent. The disease which causes the iridescence acts more swiftly in some instances than in others, depending largely upon climatic and soil conditions. Iron, brass, and lead are represented in the metal objects, those of iron usually being so heavily oxidized that little can be said regarding their original form. The lead piece is a small cross, with the base and both arms slightly notched; the top is square and has a mm. hole for suspension (pi. 47, d). The piece measures 20 mm. in height by 16 mm. across the arms; it was made from stock mm. wide (fig. 12). Brass sheeting, in irregular scraps and pieces ranging up to 10 cm. in diameter and occasionally showing the marks of a chisel or knife, occurred in several cache pits. A strip from cache 13, measuring 10 by 3 cm., has one edge finely and irregularly serrate (pi. 7, &); another has what appear to be two c
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