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(Cat. No. 327425, U.S.N.M., pi. 28, No. 5). The seeds are strung 

 on a cotton cord in a series composed of alternately one seed fol- 

 lowed by three glass beads sufficient to build up a double strand 

 over 2 feet in length. The two strands are tied together at intervals 

 in variously formed loops of different lengths, so as to lend the 

 appearance of several additional strands. When worn by the Tule 

 woman, one or more of the looped strands may be thrown over the 

 neck, the remainder forming an intricate network of pendent 

 strands. 



Another seed necklace of allspice and variously colored glass 

 beads strung in series of alternately three glass beads and one seed 

 is in the National Museum from the San Bias coast (Cat. No. 

 327424, U.S.N.M., pi. 28, No. 4). The portion of the necklace 

 passing around the neck is composed of only one strand of 

 glass beads; multiple strands of the seeds and glass beads ar- 

 ranged in loops of various lengths form a network of pendent 

 strands reaching down over the chest. Additional strands are tied 

 on to the main strands at various intervals. A short carved section 

 of a root of the " pagla ' ukku " tree (Tule) is attached to the neck- 

 lace as a pendant. Necklaces are worn among the Tule almost ex- 

 clusively by the women and girls, but by the Choeo men as well as 

 women. 



Another highly aromatic seed-necklace in the collection belonging 

 to the same family (Myrtle), and representing probably a species of 

 Eugenia, is known to the Tule as " piseva." The seed is larger and 

 has the odor of cloves or cinnamon. 



Bracelets and arm bands of glass beads, teeth of animals, fish, and 

 long bones of turtle, are commonly worn by girls and adult women. 

 A bracelet from the San Bias coast is made from small amber-colored 

 glass beads strung on a cotton cord alternately with peccary (jabali) 

 {Dicotyles labiatus) teeth, and also those of the domestic pig. A 

 pendant composed of a broken section of the tusk of some unidenti- 

 fied animal has three incised encircling bands with the remainder of 

 the yellow surface highly polished. A pendent double loop of cord 

 has at its end a carved section of a root of the " pagla 'ukku " tree. 

 The teeth are attached to the bracelet cord by a hole drilled near the 

 small end of the tooth (Cat. No. 327453, U.S.N.M., pi. 32, No. 1). 



A similar bracelet from the San Bias coast is made up of a number 

 of small multicolored-glass beads and animal teeth strung on a cotton 

 cord (Cat, No. 327451, U.S.N.M., pi. 32, No. 2). The glass beads are 

 white in color and longitudinally striated in various colors. The 

 attached teeth are suspended by means of a hole drilled near the 

 small end of the tooth. The teeth are not of uniform length; the 

 longest is the penis bone of a carnivore; others are the curved tusks 



