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PENDANTS 



Five pendants were made of animal teeth, grooved or pierced at 

 the root for suspension. From Old Town III there are a mountain- 

 goat incisor (pi. 17,/), a bear molar (pi. 17, e) on which one root is 

 grooved and the other broken, and an unidentifiable tooth (pi. 17, d) 

 with two holes and a notch in the root. Seal canine pendants (pi. 

 17, g, h) come from Old Town II, and Old Town II or III. 



An incised C3dindrical pendant of greenstone (fig. 20, 6), 7 cm. long 

 and 0.7 cm. in diameter, is from Old Town III. A suspension hole, 

 only 2.4 mm. in diameter, has been drilled at one end. The design 

 about the lower part consists of three encircling lines, between which 

 run obliquely slanting lines, forming a series of obtuse chevrons. 

 Long pointed spurs run from this band toward the bottom of the 

 pendant. 



Pendants of animal teeth are too widely distributed to be very 

 significant. Archeological specimens come from the Aleutian Islands, 

 Kachemak Bay (all periods), and Prince WUliam Sound, but not 

 Kodiak (de Laguna, 1934, p. 203; 1956, p. 217). They are reported 

 ethnologicaUy from the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and northern 

 Kwakiutl as earrings, and archeological specimens have been found in 

 Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Coast Salish areas, the latter including Marpole 

 (Eburne), Whalen Farm I and II, and Locarno Beach II (Drucker, 

 1943, p. 122; Borden 1950, pp. 17-21; de Laguna, 1960, p. 120). 



The cylindrical stone pendant from Old Town is probably unique, 

 for although stone pendants are occasionally encountered at sites in 

 southwestern and southeastern Alaska and in Coast Salish country, 

 these seem to be of other types. 



COPPER BEADS AND DANGLERS 



There are three rolls of sheet copper that served as ornaments 

 (fig. 19, g, i). One from Old Town III is a small cone, 3 cm. long, 

 with a maximum diameter of 0.8 cm. Remains of the thin cord of 

 two-ply S-twist sinew by means of which this dangler was suspended 

 protrude from the smaller end (pi. 19, g). 



A second specimen from Old Town III is a tube, now (3.8) cm. long 



Figure 19. — Ornaments. Drawn by Donald F. McGeein. a, Copper bracelet, from Mound 

 B, lower levels, Old Town II (No. 140); b, copper bracelet, from fill of House Pit 1, Old 

 Town III (No. 832); c, copper ring, from Mound B, lower levels, Old Town II (No. 160); 

 d, copper bracelet, from below floor of House Pit 1, Old Town III (No. 971);^, bone bodkin 

 with copper cap, from Mound B, lower levels, Old Town II (No. 375);/, bone bodkin, from 

 Mound D, upper levels, Old Town I (No. 924); g, copper dangler, from Mound B, upper 

 levels, Old Town III (No. 139); h, coil of copper wire, from Mound B, upper levels. Old 

 Town III (No. 583); i, copper dangler, from fill of House 8, Old Town II (No. 969); ;, bone 

 catch or buckle, from Mound B, lower levels, Old Town II (No. 972). 



