Beads and beadwork of the American Indians : a study based on specimens in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (1929)
Orchard, William C · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 29
DS 21 the Museum on Hiwassee island, Tennessee, brought to light several such cases.3 Here Harrington reported rinding two skeletons cov- ered from chin to waist with olivella-shells, which led to the belief that some kind of garment had been decorated with them. Another skeleton had the upper part… … Fig. 4. — Method of attaching- olivella-shells to how the shells were used, thongs. Modoc. (10/9600) although nothing re- mained to indicate whether they had been sewn to a leather back- ground or had been woven into a fabric. A leather robe col- lected in the latter part of the sixteenth or early…
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