 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 466 pages
...the State of Ohio being almost equal to the whole breadth of the North American continent.t PEARLS. Perforated pearls, destined to serve as beads, often...calcined that they crumbled when handled ; yet, several hundred were found sufficiently well preserved to permit of their being strung. The pearls in question... | |
 | Charles Rau - 1882 - 200 pages
...the State of Ohio being almost equal to the whole breadth of the North American continent.t PEARLS. Perforated pearls, destined to serve as beads, often...calcined that they crumbled when handled ; yet, several hundred were found sufficiently well preserved to permit of their being strung. The pearls in question... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1889 - 884 pages
...Indiana, not less than fifty thousand pearls were found, most of them pierced and injured by heat. Squier and Davis found them on the hearths of five...abundance that they could be gathered by the hundred. Like the British pearls, these also were obtained from the freshwater mussels of the rivers and streams,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1889 - 870 pages
...Indiana, not levSS than fifty thousand pearls were found, most of them pierced and injured by heat. Squier and Davis found them on the hearths of five...abundance that they could be gathered by the hundred. Like the British pearls, these also were obtained from the freshwater mussels of the rivers and streams,... | |
 | George Frederick Kunz - 1890 - 416 pages
...the Southern Indians (New York, 1873), p. 481. Perforated pearls were found by Dr. Edwin H. Davis' on the hearths of five distinct groups of mounds in...abundance that they could be gathered by the hundred. They were* generally of irregular form, mostly pear-shaped, though perfectly round ones were also found... | |
 | John Wilfrid Jackson - 1917 - 280 pages
...Indiana, not less than fifty thousand pearls were found, most of them pierced and injured by heat. Squier and Davis "" found them on the hearths of five...distinct groups of mounds in Ohio, and sometimes in such numbers that they could be gathered by the hundred. In addition to the pearls, quantities of other... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1917 - 528 pages
...Indiana, not less than fifty thousand pearls were found, most of them pierced and injured by heat. Squier and Davis ™ found them on the hearths of...distinct groups of mounds in Ohio, and sometimes in such numbers that they could be gathered by the hundred. In addition to the pearls, quantities of other... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 468 pages
...the State of Ohio being almost equal to the whole breadth of the North American continent.t PEARLS. Perforated pearls, destined to serve as beads, often...calcined that they crumbled when handled ; yet, several hundred were found sufficiently well preserved to permit of their being strung. The pearls in question... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 472 pages
...the State of Ohio being almost equal to the whole breadth of the North American continent.t PEARLS. Perforated pearls, destined to serve as beads, often...hearths of five distinct groups of mounds in Ohio, and Bometimes in such abundance that they could be gathered by the hundred. Most of them had greatly suffered... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1889 - 870 pages
...Indiana, not less than fifty thousand pearls were found, most of them pierced and injured by heat. Squier and Davis found them on the hearths of five...abundance that they could be gathered by the hundred. Like the British pearls, these also were obtained from the freshwater mussels of the rivers and streams,... | |
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... in the ancient mounds of Ohio.* The latter fact, indeed, is of great interest in its bearing on the extent of former aboriginal trade-relations, the distance from the Pacific to the State of Ohio being almost equal to the whole breadth of the North... 