268 BEADS. 



work. They are probably branches of a recent crinoid or other radiate. 

 Plate XII, Figs. 1, 2. Dos Pueblos. 



(17.) Cones of brown asphaltum roughly moulded as if by hand, about 

 i inch long, the base about & inch in diameter, the truncate apex i inch 

 or more, with a small hole down the axis, but not reaching the base. Plate 

 XIII, Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. They seem to belong to the class of pendants 

 used on fringes, and being probably moulded upon the string which was to 

 suspend them ; the decay of this would leave an opening. Abundant in 

 the excavations at La Patera and Dos Pueblos,* but an uncommon form of 

 ornament. Some of these clove-shaped asphalt ornaments were found by 

 Dr. Yarrow's party, in the holes of which were small pieces of what were 

 supposed to be dried grass. 



Glass beads from £ to 1 inch in size, of various shapes and colors 

 (transparent, translucent, opake), were found abundantly in the excavations 

 at Dos Pueblos and La Patera. These, with perhaps some exceptions, are 

 Venetian, green and red being the predominant colors. 



Among the articles shipped in England for trade on the Northwest coast, 

 Jewitt (already quoted) mentions, as part of a cargo in 1802, "looking- 

 glasses, beads, knives, razors, &c, which were received from Holland"; and 

 when Cabral discovered Brazil in 1500 he mentions using beads in trade 

 with the natives They are found in Indian graves on both sides of the 

 continent and in many interior localities. 



(18.) The figure (Plate XIII, Fig. 18) represents an oval bead of white 

 glass or enamel, which occurs in graves at Dos Pueblos and Santa Cruz 

 Island. Another specimen is modern Ute, got in Colorado by E. A. Bar- 

 ber, 1875. Mr. W. H. Holmes, of the Geological Survey of the Territories, 

 found one with the polish nearly removed by time among the debris of 

 ruins on the Mancos River, Southwest Colorado, and both Drs. Rothrock 

 and Loew, of the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 

 have found them in ruined pueblos in Colorado — a possible evidence that 

 this deserted locality was occupied since the Columbic discovery, although 

 it must be admitted that the specimens may have been dropped by recent 

 Indians. 



* These singular ornaments (?) have also been collected from graves on the island of San Miguel 

 by Mr. Bowers (P. M. 13728). 



