104 Shells as evidence of the Migrations. 
to conform to the illustration is C. wrte//us, an Indo- 
Pacific species. This suggestion, however, can only bea 
tentative one, as comparison with the original specimen 
may reveal other distinguishing characters not visible in 
the illustration. 
A further interesting feature is seen in Putnam’s Plate 
(Plate xiii, Fig. 47-51) in the use that was made by the 
Californians of cowry-shells for personal adornment. The 
serrated lips of these shells were cut out and perforated 
at one end for suspension as pendants. Earlier in this 
Chapter reference is made to the discovery of the com- 
plete outer lip of a large cowry (C. “¢grts) in prehistoric 
pit-dwellings in the South of England (antea, p. 133). 
The discovery of cowries in pre-Columbian graves in 
Ecuador is recorded by M. H. Saville. In his “ Antiqui- 
ties of Manabi, Ecuador,” this writer reports the finding 
of a shell of the cowry-type, which had a hole drilled in 
the top, and a piece of pottery was fitted to the under 
part by means of some kind of gum. This shell, which is 
figured by Saville (Plate lxvii., Fig. 5) as Cyprea cervinetta 
(a Panamic species), was found with a human skeleton in 
mound 3 at Cerro Jaboncillo. 
*®* Contributions to South American Archeology, N.Y., 1910, vol. ii., 
pp. 48 and 177. 
