254 ORNAMENTS OF TEETH AND CLAWS. 



held side by side in a mass of red paint mixed with an adhesive sub- 

 stance, of which mention will be made further on, and in the mass are nine 

 minute shell beads arranged in three rows, as seen in the figure. The upper 

 portion of this peculiar little pendant is perforated for the passage of a 

 small string. Fragments of two other, in all respects, similar little pendants 

 were obtained from the same grave with the one figured on the plate. 



A few shark's teeth were obtained in the graves opened by Dr. Yar- 

 row's party, but they do not now exhibit any signs of having been utilized ; 

 though the fact that a tooth of a shark found in a grave on Santa Catalina 

 (P. M. 14856) has two holes through its base is proof positive that, in 

 common with many other ancient people, the Californians used such teeth 

 for ornaments. 



From a grave on the island of San Clemente there was obtained a 

 little pendant (P. M. 13538), which I think is made from a small tooth of a 

 cetacean. This tooth has been rounded, and has a groove cut about one 

 end. In its present state it is 1J inches in length and ^ an inch thick. 



The present Indians of the Eocky Mountain region, as is well 

 known, have necklaces in which the claws of the grizzly bear and other 

 large animals form the most conspicuous objects. Such a necklace, 

 from the mouth of the Yellowstone, is in the Peabody Museum (7885), and 

 consists of fifteen large claws of the grizzly bear, alternating with large 

 beads of blue glass, all of which are strung on a piece of soft deer-skin. 

 These claws have been slightly altered from their natural shape by cut- 

 ting away portions of the bone at the perforated end, and also by scrap- 

 ing the under portion so as to make a flat surface, which, with the bone 

 and skin at the perforated end, has been covered with red pigment. 

 In the graves at Dos Pueblos were found several perforated claws of 

 animals, probably bears and panthers. Some of these have been slightly 

 altered in shape, like those of the grizzly bear above mentioned, and 

 it is reasonable to suppose that they once formed part of a necklace. 

 On Plate XI, Figs. 5, 6, 7, are represented three of the claws from Dos 

 Pueblos, one of which has not been perforated. Fig. 8 of the same plate 

 is from a specimen found on Santa Cruz Island by Mr. Schumacher (S. I. 

 18202), and still has the horny covering. Dr. Rau has figured one of the 



