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of Class IV. were suspended. Another, similar to this but larger, 
which was found at the Casa Grande (Chichilticale), on Rio 
Gila, is figured by Lieut. A. W. gr 
Whipple in his report. One speci- a 
men of a finger ornament was found 
by Mr. Holmes’s party. It repre- 
sents a stone ring about five eighths 
of an inch in diameter, made of hard, 
gray slate. This may be seen in Fig- 
ure 9, Plate I. 
The perforations in the pendants 
are drilled, some of them from each 
side, meeting at the centre, while in 
others the boring has been done en- (Fre. 60.) INDIAN SHELL EAR-RING. 
tirely from one side. In the majority of cases the orifice is 
funnel-shaped, but occasionally we meet with a piece of pot- 
tery in which the perforation is of the sanie diameter through- 
out. This neat puncturing must have. been accomplished with 
superior stone awls or borers. In some specimens of pendants 
the hole has been started and sunk half way, but not com- 
pleted. Figure 61 illustrates a very pretty charm or chain orna- 
ment (possibly a totem) made of a white stone. It 
represents an animal of some kind, is cylindrical, and 
was probably worn at the neck ; it may have been a 
sinker, This is the only object of this kind found 
throughout this country, with the exception of a 
carved figure (Plate I., Figure 8). Several pieces 
of white wampum were also picked up near the 
mouth of the Rio de Chelly, but they were not 
drilled hollow. They resembled pieces of solid pipe- 
stem about an inch in length, and had either been (re. 61.) Aamo- 
cut from a thick shell or were fashioned froma white inr.” "™*”” 
stone. 
We see, then, that the ancient Pueblos devoted much time 
and labor to the production of objects for the decoration of the 
person, and in this respect they displayed much ingenuity, and 
their surviving ornaments reveal to us some degree of the vanity 
with which they were endowed. 
