Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey (1915) (14797278383)

Identifier: explorationofmun21heye (find matches)
Title: Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924, joint author
Subjects: Munsee Indians
Publisher: New York, The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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od of stringing these discoids when used in connection withsmaller beads. Plate viii, b, illustrates the necklace in its originalform and shows the discs in actual size. The drilling is indi-cated, and on the edges where the perforations begin there areindentations, one at the mouth of each opening (probably due toabrasion by the small glass beads with which they were strung),giving the intervening space the appearance of a projection. Thediscs are thick in the center and taper toward the edge. Theyhad been ornamented by incising, but the surfaces have disinte-grated to such an extent that only traces of the decoration remain. Six shell discs of similar size and form were found about theneck of Skeleton 30 (pi. viii, a). Four of them are decorated onboth faces with transverse bands crossing at the center; the othertwo show only slight traces of such lines. The disc shown infigure 3 is the most perfectly preserved. Both sides bear the same CONTR. MUS. AMER. INDIAN VOL. II, NO. 1, PL. X
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