. Bulletin. Ethnology. USE OF THE COLUMN OF THE CONCH SHELL facture of beads and other objects, and the abalone was in universal demand for personal ornaments; and baskets and other objects of use and ornament were decked with pendants made of it. This shell was in very general use for settings and inlay- ing, and was and is em- ployed for these pur- poses with excellent ef- fect by the tribes of the N. W. coast. The oper- cule of a spe- cies of Turbinidpe {Pachypoma inequale) was also used in like manner by the tribes of the N. W. coast. Probably the most effective and im- portant ornaments o
. Bulletin. Ethnology. USE OF THE COLUMN OF THE CONCH SHELL facture of beads and other objects, and the abalone was in universal demand for personal ornaments; and baskets and other objects of use and ornament were decked with pendants made of it. This shell was in very general use for settings and inlay- ing, and was and is em- ployed for these pur- poses with excellent ef- fect by the tribes of the N. W. coast. The oper- cule of a spe- cies of Turbinidpe {Pachypoma inequale) was also used in like manner by the tribes of the N. W. coast. Probably the most effective and im- portant ornaments of shell employed by. Shell Pins; Tennessee mounds (a, i- 6, 2 9) MANNER OF BORING SHELL BEADS the mound-building tribes were disks, highly polished, carved, or engraved with designs, and suspended on the chest or from the ears. The designs on these are. 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. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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