Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey . V Fig. 6.—Shell disc found with Skeleton 26. and near it was a shell ornament in the form of a fish. As no smallbeads were found in association, it is probable that these ornamentswere used as pendants. GORGET The largest and most ornate of shell ornaments of the disc typefound with the burials is a gorget which accompanied Skeleton 66(fig. 7). It evidently was made from a portion of the outer wallof a conch. The design is deeply incised. The holes for suspen-sion are drilled through the central portion, which bears an orna-mentation
Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey . V Fig. 6.—Shell disc found with Skeleton 26. and near it was a shell ornament in the form of a fish. As no smallbeads were found in association, it is probable that these ornamentswere used as pendants. GORGET The largest and most ornate of shell ornaments of the disc typefound with the burials is a gorget which accompanied Skeleton 66(fig. 7). It evidently was made from a portion of the outer wallof a conch. The design is deeply incised. The holes for suspen-sion are drilled through the central portion, which bears an orna-mentation similar to that shown in figure 5, which illustrates therestored gorget found with Skeleton 29. There are six divisions inthis design, and the same number is shown in the heart-shaped fig-ures that form the major portion of the ornamentation. As thereproduction of this object is of natural size, a detailed descrip-tion of the design is unnecessary. It is, however, an unusuallygood specimen of a type of shell ornaments seldom found in easternburial sites
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