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- Shell and Stone Necklace, Detail
Description: Necklace with 828 beads (790 shell disc beads, 9 turquoise pendants, 14 argillite beads, and 15 black stone beads). Dimensions: Length of 83.8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Glycymeris Shell Bracelets
Description: Glycymeris shell bracelets. Dimensions: Diameters between 2 1/4 and 2 3/8 inches. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Shell Frog
Description: Glycymeris shell shaped into a frog with a hole for suspension. Dimensions: Diameter 3.7 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Mosaic Pendant
Description: Composite of modified pink scallop shell with turquoise mosaic pendant. Dimensions: Shell diameter 4.4 cm, mosaic diam 1.3 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Mosaic Pendant, Close-up
Description: Composite of modified pink scallop shell with turquoise mosaic pendant. Dimensions: Shell diameter 4.4 cm, mosaic diam 1.3 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Burned Shell Pendant
Description: Burned shell pendant carved into the shape of a lizard. Dimensions: 3.8 x 2.3 x 0.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Carved Shell Frog
Description: Carved shell effigy, shaped like a frog. Dimensions: 2 x 2 x 0.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Shell Bird Pendant
Description: Broken shell effigy pendant resembling a running bird. Dimensions: 2 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Round Serrated Shell Pendant
Description: Round shell pendant with serrated edges. Dimensions: 2.5 x 1.8 x 0.1 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Round Shell Bird Pendant
Description: Round shell pendant, resembling a bird. Dimensions: 2.5 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Carved Shell Pendant
Description: Shell pendant with a carved animal or possibly a bird. Dimensions: 3.1 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Shell Bracelet and Raw Material
Description: Prehistoric Glycymeris shell bracelet alongside a modern Glycymeris shell. Dimensions: Diameter 2 1/4 - 2 3/8 inches. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Blue Azurite Pigment
Description: Small ceramic bowl with pure crystalline blue azurite pigment. Dimensions: H 0.6, diam 2.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - azurite, catalog card - bowl). - Bead Blanks
Description: Thin argillite bead blanks in a plainware or Verde Brown bowl. The blanks are of various shapes; some are square while others are six-sided. These blanks, of which there are 652, were found in a single cache. Only 19 are perforated. Dimensions: Bead blanks average about 0.6 cm across. Bowl-3.8 cm H, 9.2 x 6.8 cm opening. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - bowl; catalog card - bead blanks). - Beads
Description: 95 stone beads, including 16 red argillite beads, 77 black beads, and 2 white beads. Dimensions: Average bead diameter of 2 mm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card).