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body it would appear that a cord encircled the throat with a few 
beads hung or strung at its middle. 
Most of the shell beads were made from olivellas by simply cut- 
ting off the end of the spire. They, occurred in great quantities in 
all the Sayodneechee cists (a single specimen came from the gen- 
eral digging in Cave I). A string of 53 shells was taken from the 
neck of a skeleton in Cist B (A-1915); another (pl. 70, )) from the 
same cist has single shells alternating with pairs of the little albatite 
evlinders. Besides olivellas we have specimens of a larger similar 
shell (pl. 70, 7) prepared for threading by the removal of the spire 
and part of the body; there are also seven small, thin, discoidal 
examples cut from an unidentifiable bivalve (A-1902). A single 
bead of this nature is attached to the left 
f NY ear of the infant “mummy” from Cist I, 
Wi Cave I. 
Ex There are a few hemispherical bone beads 
= in the Sayodneechee collection (A-1947), 
yy) of about the same size and shape as those of 
4 YN stone. They are fashioned from the solid 
SAY NI \ part of the shaft of a long-bone of some 
& Ved , f } large animal. Two short, cylindrical tubes 
CWA Vf U, of bird bone, highly polished, probably also 
served as beads (see pl. 86, c, d), as did 
some similar tubes recovered in their origi- 
nal order (pl. 70, f). A string of acorn 
cups used as beads is shown in plate 70, &. 
Feathered pendant (fig. 77).—This object 
may or may not have been for personal 
ornament. It is from Cave I. It is made 
of four tightly twisted fiber strings, doubled to form loops and 
bound together for a space of three-eighths inch by sinew. To each 
of the eight loose ends there are bound with sinew two small feathers, 
the greater part of which have been broken off. The total length of 
the specimen is 2 inches. 
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Fic. 77.—Feathered pendant. 
HousrHoup APPURTENANCES 
CRADLES 
Ricip Tyre: Our data as to this style is very scanty. We have 
only fragments of three very badly decayed examples from the 
cists of Cave I (pl. 71, a). They seem. to have had an outer 
frame made from a single stick bent into a sort of guitar shape. 
This outer frame appears to have sometimes been inclosed by an 
ornamental wrapping of twilled yucca leaves. The filling, as may 
be seen in the figure, is of crisscrossed reeds (not twigs as in the 
