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Japan. (Cat. No. 5547, U.S.N.M.) Lent by Miss Eliza K. Scid- 

 more. 



39. Japanese rosary. — Consisting of 100 flat beads made of plum- 

 tree wood, without spacing beads. Length, 4 feet 10 inches. Japan. 

 (Cat. No. 5519, U.S.N.M.) Lent by Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



40. Japanese rosary. — Consisting of 82 globular glass beads. The 

 pendants of the loAver parent bead are without beads. There are also 

 wanting the spacing beads. Perhaps used by the Monto or Ikkoshin 

 sect, which was founded at the beginning of the thirteenth century 

 A. D. Length, 22 inches. Japan. (Cat. No. 5548, U.S.N.M.) Lent 

 by Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



4i. Japanese I'osary. — Consisting of 80 beads made of the fruit of 

 Elaeocarpus, dried and polished. At an interval of ten beads on 

 either side of the parent beads are three smaller glass beads. The 

 pendant strings have likewise glass beads. Length, 5 feet 3 inches. 

 Japan. (Cat. No. 5543, U.S.N.M.) Lent by Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



42. Japanese rosary. — Consisting of 58 beads made of carved 

 cherry stones. With one parent bead of glass followed by an elon- 

 gated stopper bead {fusa-dome) of mother-of-pearl and terminating 

 in a tassel formed of eight silk cords. The four spacing beads are of 

 amber. Length, 24 inches. Japan. (Cat. No. 5517, U.S.N.M.) 

 Lent by Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



43. Japanese rosary. — Consisting of 69 glass beads, without any 

 attachments excepting two tassels. It was hung on the arm of a 

 temple image in Kioto. Length, 25 inches. Japan. (Cat. No. 5535, 

 U.S.N.M.) Lent by Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



J^Jf. Japanese rosary. — Consisting of 54 beads made of the nuts of 

 the Pride of India (also known as tree of paradise, bead tree, or holy 

 tree — Melia azedarach'). The parent beads are of black wood, while 

 those on the pendant strings are of glass. There are no dewdrops 

 nor spacing beads. Length, 41 inches. Japan. (Cat. No. 5542, 

 U.S.N.M.) Lent by Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



J^5. Japanese rosary. — Consisting of 100 beads of " Job's tears " 

 {Coix laehryma-johi), Avith only one pendant string from either par- 

 ent bead, the other evidently having been worn off. Length, 4 feet. 

 Japan. (Cat. No. 5534, U.S.N.M.) Lent by Miss Eliza R. Scid- 

 more. 



46. Japanese rosary. — Consisting of 192 beads made of black wood. 

 It is probably made up of two different strings, as the beads are of 

 unequal size. At irregular intervals are two or three glass beads. 

 From either of the parent beads extend two strings with tassels, but 

 without beads. Length, 5 feet 4 inches. Japan. (Cat. No. 5539, 

 U.S.N.M.) Lent by Miss Eliza R. Scidmore. 



47. Japanese prhnitive necklace., so-called " Shinto rosary.'''' — -It 

 consists of a string of 30 glass pieces in regular alternation of one 



