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to an apparently great depth, with the disintegration or 'caving' down of the 

 wall of the material in course of removal, and thus appear to have been deposited 

 there. We must, however, exhaust the easiest modes of resolving a question 

 before resorting to those that are complex." 



Fig. 396. 



Fig. 397. 



Fig. 398. 



Fig. 399. 



Fig. 400. 



Fio. 101. 



Fig. 402 



All 1 

 Figs. 396-403. — Fish-shaped silver ornaments. From one of the Chiucha Islands. 



The silver fishes just described are in the American Museum of Natural 

 History at New York. There can be little doubt that they were originally 

 attached as ornaments to some article of dress, which has long yielded to decay 



* Squier : Antiquities, etc.; p. 55. 



