Ant.

R.I.A.; Stone Mat.p.180.The ethnographic phases of conchology might form a study in itself.

Shells appear to be the earliest form of ornament in use.

The North American Indians have their shell necklaces buried with them also.

See Wilson's _Pre-Historic Man_.
[166] _Child_ .-- Mr.Wilson gives a most interesting description of an interment of a mother and child in an ancient Peruvian grave.