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times over and, on the same side, in the other direction, runs over one and under 

 four, as shown in Fig. 65. On the opposite side of the matting the pattern is, of 

 course, reverse 



Fig. 64.— Shell beads. Smalli 



nd in Thirty-Acre Field. (Full size.) 



The other lot of pendants, eight in number, were piled one upon the other. 

 In size they resembled the others. 



The decoration on all the pendants had been conferred by pressure. On the 



Fig. 65. — Matting. Small 



Thirty-Acre Field. (Full s 



upper part was a portion of the aboriginal eye, and as this eye was not complete, it 

 seemed to us at first as though the pendants had been cut from a sheet of copper previ- 

 ously decorated. Upon closer examination, however, it was noted that the section 



