Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . eremony before the grave was covered with earth. The container asshown in Fig. 69 was madefrom F u 1 g u r Perver-sum, and is prepared a lit-tle different from the oneshown in Fig. 68. Thebeak was left almost in-tact. The aperture hadbeen enlarged by cuttingaway the body whorl sim-ilar in every respect to thelast one described. A por-tion of another shell wasmade into a drinking cupof a form known as thehorse conch — Fascio-laria gigentia. This ves-sel was badly broken byfire, but the greater partof the apex remains. PEARL BEADS. Most abundant of a
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . eremony before the grave was covered with earth. The container asshown in Fig. 69 was madefrom F u 1 g u r Perver-sum, and is prepared a lit-tle different from the oneshown in Fig. 68. Thebeak was left almost in-tact. The aperture hadbeen enlarged by cuttingaway the body whorl sim-ilar in every respect to thelast one described. A por-tion of another shell wasmade into a drinking cupof a form known as thehorse conch — Fascio-laria gigentia. This ves-sel was badly broken byfire, but the greater partof the apex remains. PEARL BEADS. Most abundant of allo b j e c t s found in themound were beads ofshells and pearl. Thepearl beads were piercedwith holes and strung forattachment around theneck or wrist. A string having some twenty-one hundred beadswas fouyd. with burial No. 100. A section of a case in whichthese beads are now kept is shown in Fig. 70. They are all small,some of them being perfectly round. While the majority aresmall several hundred of them were found of a size which would. Fig. 69 Drinking cup made of Oceanshell. (Length ten inches.) 184 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. vary in diameter from one-fourth to one-half of an inch. Someof the large pearls are shown in Fig. 71. In several instances the large pearls had been flattened uponone side and set in copper, as shown in Fig. 26. Again, thepearls were often flattened, as shown in Fig. 72, and pierced with
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