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REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



of the same size vary in value, according to their brilliancy. * * * 

 All the money that I have seen was strung on grocery twine, but they 

 often use sinew of various kinds; also the bark of a milkweed that 

 grows about here.* 



"The aulone or uhl-lo necklace has three or four strings of very small 

 glass beads above the shells, forming a band about a quarter of an inch 

 wide, which encircles the neck. * * * A common deep conical bas- 

 ket, of about a bushel and a half capacity, such as the squaws use for 

 carrying their household effects, is worth one and one-half or two strings 

 of uhl-lo, that is, fifteen or twenty dollars." 



The shells of the various species of Haliotis were as highly prized by 

 the red men of the west coast in the r>ast as in later times, and were 

 worked by them into a great variety of forms. These forms, as well as 

 entire shells, have been found in the older burial places, mounds, and 



Fig. 21. 



Fig. 22. 



From Indian Mound, Vallejo, Solane County, California. Found in 1872 by C. D. Voy. 



graves throughout the entire coast, and far to the eastward in interior 

 localities. 



Placer County, California. 



