HARRINGTON ] DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTIFACTS 147 
Black shell dish. The holes have a trace of former plugging seen on the back 
of the shell. 190.5 mm, long. 
Fragment of black abalone shell dish. Fragment 1386.5 mm, long, and shows 
four holes still plugged with asphalt and one from which the plugging has 
cropped out. 
Black abalone shell dish, 161.9 mm. long, 136.5 mm. wide, 47.6 mm. high. 
Fifty-six transverse incisions have been cut as ornamentation along the rim. 
Of the four holes occurring in the shell in its present fragmentary condition, 
only two still have the asphalt plugging intact. (PI. 24, 6.) 
Fragmentary black abalone shell dish, 120.6 mm. long, 101.6 mm. wide, 44.4 
mm. high. Seven holes occur in the specimen, only one of which is still plugged 
with asphalt. 
Fragmentary black abalone dish. Fragment 98.4 mm. long, 52.3 mm. wide. 
One hole plugged with asphalt occurs in the fragment. 
Beautiful red abalone shell dish, 225.4 mm, long, 187.8 mm. wide, 57.1 mm. 
high. The back of the shell is partly ground off and shows pretty veining. 
There are five holes. The two nearest apex and rim are still plugged with 
asphalt. 
Black abalone shell dish. 114.3 mm. long, 88.9 mm. wide, 25.4 mm, high. 
The plugging has fallen out of the siphonal holes. 
SHELLS USED AS PAINT CUPS 
In addition to stone mortars or bowls, limestone cups, ironstone 
concretions, and fish vertebrae, the Indians employed shells of va- 
rious kinds as containers for pigment. Typical paint cups, the use 
of which was unmistakable, may be listed as follows: 
Rock oyster shell which was used as a paint cup. The central part of the 
cupping shows a bright stain of red hematite. SS mm. long, 18 mm. diameter. 
Owl limpet shell found filled with red hematite paint; 79 mm. long, 57 mm. 
wide, 16 mm. diameter. The paint varies in color from blackish gray to bright 
red, and is fine textured and like asphalt in hardness. (Pl. 24, c.) 
BEADS, PENDANTS, AND ORNAMENTS 
The favorite material for Indian jewelry was shell, and among 
the various shells employed the abalone, Pismo clam, olivella and 
rock-oyster had, perhaps, the preference. These shells were treated 
in almost every conceivable way in the manufacture of Indian finery. 
No known substance is more handsome than mother-of-pearl, and the 
Indian ornaments, when new and properly strung or otherwise at- 
tached, made a beautiful and showy appearance. 
European beads were introduced in quantities very early and at the 
time of the American occupation were about the only ones worn by 
the Mission Indians. 
The small beads especially escaped being broken, and many of 
them survived the action of the soil almost perfectly. The method 
of stringing, however, which is of ethnological importance, can never 
be to any extent recovered. Bone and stone beads were also used in 
surprising variety. 
