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Some old shell cache finds.
Here are a couple of old pictures of different caches I've dug over the years from different sites around the Caribbean and Venezuela.
Five small Gorgets.
A handful of beads. Kind of like some old coins that are crusted together, most of the beads here were clumped together.
This picture is really bad, but these beads were found "threaded" on beads and were probably some type of compound ear or nose ring.
This is a large gorget and all of the beads that were found with it.
This cache was a little different, relatively few small beads but some pretty cool effigies. All associated with rain. (Water birds and a toad/frog.) And a little green jade celt.
Not shell, but some very early Spanish trade beads from St. Lucia. They've been studied by a couple of different bead experts, and are relatively rare examples. They window of time when these were used was pre 1500 when another type of bead was introduced, which implies they were probably carried by one of the different ships under Columbus's command in his 2nd or 3rd voyage.
Five small Gorgets.
A handful of beads. Kind of like some old coins that are crusted together, most of the beads here were clumped together.
This picture is really bad, but these beads were found "threaded" on beads and were probably some type of compound ear or nose ring.
This is a large gorget and all of the beads that were found with it.
This cache was a little different, relatively few small beads but some pretty cool effigies. All associated with rain. (Water birds and a toad/frog.) And a little green jade celt.
Not shell, but some very early Spanish trade beads from St. Lucia. They've been studied by a couple of different bead experts, and are relatively rare examples. They window of time when these were used was pre 1500 when another type of bead was introduced, which implies they were probably carried by one of the different ships under Columbus's command in his 2nd or 3rd voyage.
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