Excerpt from Recent Archaeological Investigations in Ontario There are three hundred and twenty small circular beads of various diameters and lengths (plate IV, Fig. These were cut out of some large, heavy marine shell. The structure of the shell substance resembles that of the shell of the large gasteropod F ulgur per-verso from the Mexican Gulf and the south-eastern coast of the United States. Many of the mounds of western Canada and the Dakotas have yielded large beads which have been made from the shells of this ...
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Excerpt from Recent Archaeological Investigations in Ontario There are three hundred and twenty small circular beads of various diameters and lengths (plate IV, Fig. These were cut out of some large, heavy marine shell. The structure of the shell substance resembles that of the shell of the large gasteropod F ulgur per-verso from the Mexican Gulf and the south-eastern coast of the United States. Many of the mounds of western Canada and the Dakotas have yielded large beads which have been made from the shells of this mollusc. One larger ornament, probably a pendant for the neck or breast, is a piece of sea-shell two and one-half inches in greatest length, evidently cut from two of the whorls of F ulgur perverra, and having the aperture for suspension bored from both sides. Like all the others it shows great age. (see plate IV, Fig. All of the remains were above the original surface of the ground, and were not deposited in any special pit or excavation. There were no skulls or bones of any large animal above them, nor was there a layer or covering of wooden poles or of a calcareous material present. Stones alone con stituted their covering along with the vast heap of soil above. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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