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SHEDI A C SHELL 



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Chic'omi'co.— Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 66, 

 1881. Chi'-c6-mi'-co.— Connolley in Heckewelder, 

 Narr., 117, 1907 (Indian pronunciation). Shaco- 

 mico.— Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 86. 1872 

 Shecomeco.— Inscription (1746) quoted by Rupp, 

 Northampton Co., 82, 1845. Shecomeka.— Hecke- 

 welder (1740-1808), Narr., 117, 1907. Shekomeko.— 

 Loskiel, Hi.^^t. Miss. Unit. Breth.. pt, 2, 9, 1794. 

 Shicomiko. — Trumbull, op. cit., 67. 



Shediac A Micmac village or band in 

 1670 at the present Shediac, on the e. 

 coast of New Brunswick. 

 Chedaik.— Vaudreuil (17n.5) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., X, 359, 1858. Gediak.-Frye (1760) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., X, 115, 1809. Jediuk.— 

 Stile.s(1761), ibid., 116. 



Sheethltunne {Ce-crJ-limne). A band or 

 village of the Chastacosta on the n. Imnk 

 of Rogue r. , Oreg. ; or perhaps the Tak- 

 elma village on the opposite bank. — Dor- 

 sey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 234, 1890. 



Shegoashkwu. The Yurok name of a 

 Karok village below Orleans Bar, Kla- 

 math r., N. w. Cai. 



Shehees. A band, probably of the Cala- 

 pooya, mentioned bv Ross ( Advent. , 236, 

 1849). 



Shehek^, Shekeke. See Shahaka. 



Shekallamy, Shekellamy. See Shikel- 

 lamy. 



Shell, Shellwork. Shell was a favorite 

 material with the aborigines all over 

 America for the manufacture of imple- 

 ments, utensils, and ornaments; and 

 shells in their natural state or merely 

 notched or perforated for attachment 

 were, on account of their beauty of form 

 and color (Marginella, Olivella, Natica, 

 etc.), extensively used for personal em- 

 bellishment. Among the tribes n. of 



Made of conch Shel 

 ILLINOIS (l-e) 



Mexico clam and mussel shells (Venus, 

 Mya, Anodon, Unio, etc.) served for cups 

 and spoons, were hafted for scraping 

 and digging, and worked up into fish- 

 hooks, knives, and other minor imple- 

 ments. The large conchs (Stronil:>ns, 

 Cassis, Fulgur, etc. ) were used as drink- 

 ing vessels after the interior portions had 

 been removed, <ind in Florida tliey were 

 hafted as clubs and picks. In many sec- 

 tions the thick walls were cut up to be 

 shaped by tedious processes of scraping, 

 grinding, and drilling with stone tools 

 into celts, adzes, gouges, scrapers, and 

 plummets. Ornaments of shell were ex- 

 ceedingly varied in form, and the clam, 

 unio, conch, and many of the larger 

 shells in the E., and like forms, and more 

 especially the beautiful abalone (Hali- 

 otis) of the Pacific coast, were cut up, 



trimmed, ground, and polished and per- 

 forated for beads, pins, pendants, and 

 breastplates or gorgets. The column of 

 the conch was cut up into sections and 

 ground down into rude beads. Much skill 

 was shown in boring these, and cylinders 

 3 in. or more in length were perforated 

 longitudinally by means of drills of un- 

 known make. Along the Atlantic coast 



Skin Cloak decorated with designs worked Out in Small 

 Shells; Virginia Indians 



clam shells ( Venus mercenaria) were made 

 into small cylindrical beads, which were- 

 strung as necklaces and woven into belts, 

 and in colonial times served as a medium 

 of exchange (see }yampum) . A most in- 

 teresting exampleof the use of small shells 

 for ornament is given bv Tylor (Internat. 

 Archiv f. Ethnog., i, 215, 1888) and Bush- 

 nell (Am. Anthr., 

 IX, 38-39, 1907). 

 It is a deerskin 

 mantle, on which 

 figures of a man 

 and two quadru- 

 peds, accompanied 

 by a number of 

 round figures, are 

 worked in margi- 

 nella shells. The 

 specimen has been 

 in English hands 

 for upward of 250 

 tained by early colonists from the Pow- 

 hatan Indians. Bivalve shells from the 

 Pacific coast, and also possibly from 

 the Gulf of Mexico, were much used 

 by the tribes of the Pueblo region for 

 various ornaments, and especially for 

 beads, which were very highly prized. 



years, and was ob- 



