id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 42564 Holmes, William Henry Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306 .txt text/plain 66294 4012 74 In Fig. 2, Plate XXI, a cut is given of a _Mytilus_ shell paint-cup from from burial places, as many of the finer specimens of shell objects have Plate XXI, Fig. 1, an outline of the shell represented is given; it these celt-like implements from the fresh-water shell heaps near St. Johns, Fla. One is made from a triangular piece cut from a _Busycon Fig. 3 illustrates a small cylindrical bead, with large perforation, Fig. 4 represents a small spheroidal bead from the great mound near A large number of beads of the class illustrated in Fig. 6, Plate XXXV, ornaments but beads; these are a kind of shell or stone, which they form shell beads was in general use throughout the Atlantic coast region very represent some life form, probably a bird; a large perforation near the Fig. 2 of the same plate represents a large shell cross, the encircling ./cache/42564.txt ./txt/42564.txt