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cord by means of sinew wrappings that pass through the perforations 
in their upper ends. The short, heavy cord is all that remains of a 
neck cord such as will be described in the next paragraph. The 
ends of the original cord have been cut off close to the pendants, and 
a new string has been installed and tied to the fragment of the old 
one by fine yucca ligatures which also pass through the holes in the 
pendants, reinforcing their old sinew attachments. 
This arrangement was more or less a makeshift; the original neck 
cord was undoubtedly like the specimen shown in figure 72, 6, which, 
however, has lost its pendants. It is a two-strand twist of rawhide, 
16 inches long, with a loop for an eye at one end and a knot for a. 
toggle at the other. The central 24 inches is wrapped with sinew, 
overwrapped with yvucea strings, and holds four small loops. for 
the attachment of the missing pendants. 
A third specimen (fig. 72, ¢) is less complete, but is surely also a 
fragment of a necklace. It is made of two light yucca strings held 
together by a close figure 8 weaving of fine sinew. The loop or 
eye is present, the toggle missing; in the middle are remains, in the 
form of loops and broken ends of string, of a central attachment 
device similar to 
those described 
above. In this con- 
nection it is inter- 
esting to note that 
in the Peabody 
Museum collection 
from the caves of Coahuila, in northern Mexico, there are long strings 
for necklaces or bandoleers, made in much the same way as these, but 
holding in place of pendants the vertebrae of some species of snake. 
A fourth necklace from Cave I, but, unfortunately, very fragment- 
ary, is shown in plate 70, c, and figure 73. It consists of the shells of 
Pyrimidula strigosa var. cooperi; twelve of these are still in place, 
and five more were found in the earth near by. They are so strung 
together by a fiber cord running through holes in the upper parts 
of their whorls that they fit closely into each other. The attachment 
string is fastened to the neck cord by a third small string, which 
takes a double hitch about it between each shell (see fig. 73). Nor- 
denskidld? figures identical shells from the Mesa Verde; they were 
found loose, but are perforated for suspension in the same way as 
these. 
Pendants that. once probably formed parts of ornaments such as 
the above, but which were discovered loose in the Sayodneechee cists, 
are made of various materials. Some stone examples are shown in 
Fic. 73.—Detail of shell necklace. 
11893, pl. Ix, fig. 2. 
