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fragments of labrets. There are three small triangular pendants, two 

 with a vertical (pi. 15, n) and one with a horizontal perforation (pi. 

 15, 0) at the small end. In addition, there are three imperforated 

 shell triangles of about the same size. The shell beads are much 

 disintegrated and form a rather heterogeneous group (pi. 15, p-t). 

 Several are thin and roughly circular with biconodont perforations 

 (pi. 15, p-r), II (for the most part badly broken) are cylindrical 

 (pi. 15, s), and, finally, one flat, thin section of ground shell 

 (pi. 15, t) has a curved perforation through its entire length (3.4 cm). 

 Besides the above shell artifacts, the offertory vase also contained 

 one small unworked pelecypod shell and three fragments of the same 

 material. 



Two unusual artifacts were included in the contents of the offertory 

 vase (pi. 15, tt, v). They are ground-down shell and have a brown 

 patination and green copper stains. Each has a hole (averaging 4 mm 

 in diameter) drilled longitudinally and on a gradual curve. The 

 unbroken piece has one large and one small hole drilled latitudinally 

 near one end. They evidently were used as beads. 



VICINITY OF COXEN HOLE 



Neither the Boekelman Expedition nor our party made any exca- 

 vations near Coxen Hole, but several local collections were examined, 

 and some of these were purchased by the former expedition.'"' At 

 the store of Sr. Charles Osgood, Governor of the Islands, we examined 

 a small collection of monochrome pottery consisting mainly of ornate 

 but crude models of larger vessels. They were very similar to the 

 smaller pieces already described from the Dixon site and had been 

 found on one of the ridges behind the town. Bird took notes and 

 photographs of a small collection owned by Dona Carmine e Yorgas, 

 of Coxen Hole, which had been found in the interior of the island 

 directly inland from the town. The collection includes five unslipped, 

 red to brown vessels (monochrome), of which two crudely incised, 

 small, egg-cup-shaped vessels (like pi. 8, fig. i, a-g) were obviously 

 offertory models. The other three had round bodies and constricted 

 openings. One had a low, everted lip, and two had taller cylindrical 

 necks with slightly flaring lips. One of the latter had an interlocking 

 double scroll design with recurving punctate marks at the ends of the 

 lines, and two lugs shaped like apes' heads. There was also a three- 

 legged metate (28 cm long, 18 cm wide, and 12.5 cm high at one end, 



'"A.M.N.H. nos. 1596-1605. 



