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and so can not now be identified as such. A few shells of this 

 species have been found from which the rough portions of the 

 hinge have been removed. These had evidently served some 

 purpose, perhaps as cups or dippers, perhaps as knives. 



In the refuse heaps of Site No. 7, Buffalo, a few poorly 

 wrought beads were found. Some of these are discoidal, some 

 roughly cylindrical. They were cut from the hinges of Unio. 

 Numerous fragments of hinge from which the thinner valvular 

 portion has been removed show the manner of making these beads, 

 and unfinished beads in all stages of manufacture occur. A few 

 pendants made from Unio valves have been found. Plate III, 

 Figs. 98, 101, 107, and 108 show several such. 



In the graves of two sites namely, at Port Colborne and at 

 "Kienuka", large irregular plates cut from the parietal portion 

 of some imported shell, perhaps the Busycon or Strombus, were 

 found. These are perforated. In spite of their unwieldy shape 

 and large size and consequent weight these were undoubtedly 

 used as pendants. With them on both sites were found numer- 

 ous smoothly wrought, perforated discs, from half an inch to an 

 inch in diameter. The shell from which these were cut was 

 probably the Busycon. In an ash heap on Site No. 23, Klma, 

 was found a shell pendant, also made from some sea-shell, Fig. 

 105, Plate III. 



Shell articles in a large variety were found in the cemetery 

 at the "sand-pits" at Stamford (Site No. 107) and on Grand 

 Island (Site No. 30). 



From the ' 'sandpits' ' came an entire shell of Strombus gigas. 

 A perforation in the edge of the lip was evidently made for sus- 

 pension upon a cord to facilitate carrying it. Two very long 

 cylinders cut from columellae and some shorter cylinders were 

 also found. 



On the Van Son site were numerous articles made of mas- 

 sive shell. Most numerous were the flat disks and short thick 

 cylinders. Besides these there were cylinders as thick as a lead 

 pencil and from 1 l/2 to 2 inches long perforated lengthwise; 

 heavy pendants, one the size of a man's thumb; a few beads of 

 different shapes, spheroid, semi-spheroid, and hour glass shaped, 

 and two large gorgets. The largest of these is 5 inches in diam- 

 eter. It was found in place concave side up, on the lumbar 

 vertebrae of a skeleton, Plate III, Fig. 135. 



