66 SMITHSONIAX MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 92 



This cache contained one rectangular stone gorget and 32 small 

 stone pendants. The largest and hest of these is of serpentine and, 

 having two perforations, may he classed as a gorget rather than a 

 pendant (pi. 13, a). It is greenish black in color, and its polished 

 surface is decorated with three groups of vertical lines. The other 

 pendants of serpentine (pi. 13. m-p) are much simpler, consist- 

 ing primarily of flat, polished pebbles perforated at the small end. 

 Two of these have incomplete perforations (pi. 13, p, is an example). 

 Besides those figured, there are two similar serpentine pebble pen- 

 dants, in one of which the perforations, commenced from both sides, 

 are incomplete. In addition there is an unworked pel)ble of indurated 

 serpentine, 3.6 cm long, which was also in the same pot. Three 

 beautifully colored pendants with single perforations are of diopside 

 (pi. 13, b, d, g). Two of these are round and were originally apple- 

 green in color, though this is more or less streaked with brown (pi. 

 13, h, d), and the third is a well-made rectangle of apple-green flecked 

 with black specks and some brown patination (pi. 13, g). Pendants 

 of talc are most abundant, numbering 14 in all. Good examples of 

 these are illustrated (pi. 13, c, h. j, k, I). Besides the thin, round, 

 and subrectangular pendants of talc, there are several perforated 

 pebbles of this material which resemble similar serpentine pieces (pi. 

 13. /'). All these artifacts were probably worn as additions to bead 

 necklaces or else as ear and nose ornaments. 



In all, 372 beads were found in this one vessel. Of these, 18 were 

 of shell, in a more or less fragmentary condition. Two much-eroded 

 beads, one small and cylindrical and one cruciform (pi. 14, d) , are of 

 calcite. Nine large to medium, round beads are of gray-white marble. 

 These are for the most part flecked with green due to copper contacts 

 and are somewhat rough on the surface, showing their crystalline 

 nature. One long, cylindrical incised bead is also of marble. There are 

 80 beads of diopside, of which 49 are cylindrical of various sizes, 29 

 are round and of all sizes represented in the entire collection, i is 

 square in cross-section, and i is triangular. One beautifully polished 

 black bead of cruciform shape is of serpentine (pi. 14, c). The 

 remaining 261 beads, comprising all the a])ove mentioned types, are 

 of varicolored talc. All the incised beads (pi. 14, e) are of talc 

 except the one cylindrical marble bead with incisions on one end 

 (pi. 14, c, top center). The other marble beads are of the round type. 

 The fact that incised beads are predominantly of talc is probably due 

 to the greater ease with which that material may be worked. With 

 the above exceptions, there seems to be little correlation between form 

 and material in the present collection of beads. 



