A Montauk cemetery at Easthampton, Long island (1920)
Saville, Foster Harmon, 1874-1942 · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 53
SHELL 89 Shell A conical shell pendant (fig. 2) was found by Air Nelson at the time the cemetery was discovered. It is evi- … FiG. 2.— Shell Pendant (^). dently mad^ from an end of the columella of a large shell, possibly a periwinkle. It is perforated at the top for suspension, and ornamented with a band of circular dots around both top and base; these bands are connected by seven vertical rows of eight similar marks.…
Indians of North America · Montauk Indians
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