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Identifier: explorationofmun21heye (find matches)
Title: Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924, joint author
Subjects: Munsee Indians
Publisher: New York, The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Skeleton 26. and near it was a shell ornament in the form of a fish. As no smallbeads were found in association, it is probable that these ornamentswere used as pendants. GORGET The largest and most ornate of shell ornaments of the disc typefound with the burials is a gorget which accompanied Skeleton 66(fig. 7). It evidently was made from a portion of the outer wallof a conch. The design is deeply incised. The holes for suspen-sion are drilled through the central portion, which bears an orna-mentation similar to that shown in figure 5, which illustrates therestored gorget found with Skeleton 29. There are six divisions inthis design, and the same number is shown in the heart-shaped fig-ures that form the major portion of the ornamentation. As thereproduction of this object is of natural size, a detailed descrip-tion of the design is unnecessary. It is, however, an unusuallygood specimen of a type of shell ornaments seldom found in easternburial sites. 36 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
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Fig. 7.—Shell gorget found with Skeleton 66.TRIANGULAR PENDANTS With the skeletons four triangular shell pendants were found.The largest of these (fig. 8, a) was under the skull of Skeleton 8It is very thin and the surface is much disintegrated. A hole hasbeen drilled through the upper part, but only a portion of it remains.

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