H.P.
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Shell...I have some extremely small ones in another frame that are bird bone.Very nice tray. Love the Necklace. Are the Beads Bone or Shell?
...Necklace was found together with quartz pendant in the position you see...Red gorget right side..
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..If you can imagine, in a process like that you are carefully scraping dirt, your already into pottery etc.and you scrape the first couple of you don’t know what, and these these tiny things moved, I slowed down, I brushed till I could see more shell, everything is semi packed yellow sand, no shells etc. when you hit something it’s an artifact mostly pottery...anyway I knew I couldn’t spend the time to be a pretend archeologist, I used the screen...I’m sure I lost a few but I knew that when it was put in the ground it was a complete necklace, the quartz pendant was not exactly a surprise given the other artifacts that were here, I didn’t get em all but I do have more that I will show as I go through this frame series. ...I let em dry and treated em with Duco and Acetone, I’m sure these were not strung exactly like this but I had to string em someway..I have a frame that actually shows spacers between ....thanks for question I do post prolifically on another forum so I don’t have all the time I need to detail here, but I always like to answer any questions, thanks M.A...p.s. no collectors took pics. In 68, it’s a new thing, we had a limited amount of dig and hunting time on many sites, I don’t know if you can understand that...woulda been Polaroids, not these fancy I I I pads,Lol.....these are from Cedar KeysI’m trying to imagine the discovery and delicate process of extracting. What an amazing find!
I hope you have a photo or two of the in situ. Dang! I’d really like to see that.
Beautiful artifacts!