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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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Fig. 12.—Shell bird pendant found by Mr Bell. One of the bird figures found with the skeleton of a child by MrBell (pi. ix, b, and fig. 12) presents a surface the major portion of
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H EYE-PEP PER—EXPLORATION OF A M UN SEE CEMETERY 39 which is perfectly preserved. The figure represents a hawk or anowl. The tips of the wings and the end of the tail are discolored,and their superficial polish is gone; the tip of the beak is abraded,and a small piece has been broken from the left wing; otherwise thefigure is perfect. The shell from which this bird was cut was slightlycurved, the concave portion being the side that rested against thebody of the wearer. The body of the figure is a rounded oval;the legs are represented by two knobs; the head is carved in theround, and the eyes are formed by circles enclosing dots. Thehole for suspension passes through the neck. At the lower part ofthis aperture, on each side, is the end of a necklace-like bandformed by parallel lines separated by a row of dots in contact.The claws of the left foot are faintly represented by a series of fivedots, and there is a slight groove in a corresponding position onthe right foot, but these indic

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