348 Aboriginal Shell Money. [June. 
ness, is strung upon strings the same as beads in a necklace, 
for which purpose it is also used. Figure 5 is the same in form 
and of about the size of the pieces made from Sazidomus gracilis 
CS. aratus), according to Yates, and in use “among the Indians 
of Lake County. Eighty of these disks are valued at one 
dollar.” : | 
This money, which is called hawock, according to Mr. Powers, 
is universal throughout Middle and Southern California, though 
different tribes call it by different names and attach different 
values to it. 
“ Sometimes disks of hawock are made two inches in diameter - 
and half an inch thick, which are rated at one dollar a piece, but 
such large pieces are seldom seen.” 
“ The Bear River Indians (Neeshenams) are the only ones 
I have seen who count it by the single piece, the others rate it 
by the foot or yard. . . . It is sometimes strung upon a string 
many yards long, in hundreds of pieces, and doubled into lengths 
of about a yard. The Wi-Lackees make the buttons thin, then 
every tenth one thicker, so that it looks like a Catholic rosary, 
and their name for it is tocalli.” 
In a photograph of a young woman of the Bear River Indians, 
named VAlputteh, received from Mr. Powers, her person is 
adorned with a necklace of hawock which, it is stated, is ten 
yards long, requiring to be wound several times about her neck, 
and consisting of about 1160 pieces, valued at $232. Another 
of the same tribe, Pedah or Captain Tom, has an inventory of 
money and ornaments made of the uhllo (Haliotis), hawock 
(Pachydesma), and colcol (Olivella), of the total value of $479. 
The uhllo, however, seems to be the most highly prized, and in 
-various ways is wrought into gorgets, girdles, and head-dresses, 
as the hawock and coleol is principally used for necklaces. Gor- 
gets of Haliotis are especially valued, as they require a large and 
fine shell for this purpose. 
Upon reviewing the present and my previous papers, it will 
be observed that the species of shells named in the following 
table have been or are now used as money by barbarous tribes 
on this continent and in other parts of the world. 
