212 ART IN SHELL OF THE ANCIENT AMERICANS. 



Adair, speaking of the Clioctaws, says that "both sexes pluck all the 

 hair off their bodies with a kind of tweezers, made formerly of clam 

 shells.'" Strachey states that shells were used by the Virginian Indians 

 for cutting hair. Beverly says of the Virginia Indians that they "pull 

 their Beards up by the Boots with Muscle-shells, and both Men and 

 Women do the same by the other Parts of their Body for Cleanliness 

 sake.'" Hecke welder states that "Before the Europeans came into the 

 country their apparatus for performing this work consisted of a pair of 

 mussel-shells, sharpened on a gritty stone, which answered the purpose 

 very well, being somewhat like pincers.'" 



Fig. 5, Plate XXVII, reproduced from a plate in the Necropolis of 

 Ancon^ represents two small Mytilus shells pierced at the beak and 

 bound together with a cord. They were found in one of the ancient 

 graves of Peru, and may have been used for a similar purpose. 



'Adair: History of the American Indians, p. 6. 



'Beverly: History of Virginia, p. 140. 



' Heckewelder's Indian Nations, p. 205. 



*EeiB8 and Stiibel: Necropolis of Ancon, Plate 83, fig. 17 J. 



