OBISTAMENTED IMPLEMENTS. 



253 



Fig. 125. 



ment, which has decayed except where preserved by direct contact with the 

 asphaltum. Around the upper part of this handle, and partly embedded 

 in the asphaltum, a string of beads has been twice wound. Both ends of 

 this string are shown in the figure. These beads are small disks of shell 

 resembling-, except in size, the one shown on Plate XII, Fig. 6. Dividing 

 the handle lengthwise into two equal portions, are two rows of the small 

 shell beads set in the asphaltum, as seen on the under portion of the 

 figure. Between these rows, on each side, there are two perforated disks 

 of Haliotis shell partly embedded in the asphaltum. The end of the han- 

 dle is flat and smooth, as if there had once been a piece of shell on that 

 portion. 



From the same locality as the interesting handle just described was 

 obtained the circular mass of asphaltum of which Fig. 125 is a representa- 

 tion of natural size. This mass is flat on its under 

 surface, convex above, and about half an inch in 

 thickness. In the centre above, as shown in the 

 figure, there is a circular, perforated piece of Haliotis 

 shell, and around this are two rows of the small 

 shell beads like those shown on Plate XII, Figs. 

 3, 4, 5. This probably once formed the end of a 

 handle similar to Fig. 124; but it may have been 

 of the same character, on a larger scale, as the lit- 

 tle ornament obtained by Mr. Schumacher from a 

 grave on Santa Catalina (P. M. 14550). This lat- 

 ter consists of the articulating portion of one end of a leg bone of a small 

 mammal, cut off nearly flat ; the cut surface being covered with a thin 

 coat of asphaltum, in which are embedded six small shell beads like those 

 in the larger specimen above figured. This little globular ornament is £ 

 an inch in diameter. 



In connection with the description of the whistles on a preceding page, 

 it has already been stated that small shell beads were fastened by asphal- 

 tum, on some of the instruments, simply for ornament. 



A very interesting little ornament from Dos Pueblos is shown on 

 Plate XIII, Fig. 68. This consists of three teeth of a small rodent, 



End of a handle? with shell 

 ornaments. 



