A Shell Bracelet Manufactory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2561549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur Woodward (0000-0002-9383-9969), Arthur Smith Woodward (0009-0009-3463-0426, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1936 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-125 |
| Publication date | 1936-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/275883 |
| OpenAlex | W2319798856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
Some of the most common artifacts found on all of the ancient Hohokam sites in southern Arizona, and upon many of the Pueblo sites further to the north in both Arizona and New Mexico, are the thin, well-made bracelets, earrings and finger rings, fashioned from the Glycimeris shell. The broken fragments of these specimens are particularly noticeable in the great trash heaps marking the Hohokam villages. The normal type is a plain, smoothly-cut, well-polished circlet of shell, usually perforated with a small hole at the apex of the hinge.Although archaeologists have long been familiar with these, and know that the shells from which they were made are found in the Gulf of California, the origin of the artifacts themselves has not been established. It has been inferred that the Indians of the interior obtained the complete shells in trade, or that in ancient times the inhabitants of the Gila and Salt valleys traveled to the Gulf, a nine days' journey on foot, even as the Pima and Papago have resorted thither for salt in more recent historic times
Ancient history · Apex (geometry · Archaeology · Geography · Geometry · Shell (structure · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Engineering · Geology · History · Latin American history and culture · Paleontology
Higgins Flat Pueblo, western New Mexico / [by] Paul S. Martin, et al.
Shell Ornament Consumption in a Classic Hohokam Platform Mound Community Center
The La Playa Archaeological Project
The Trincheras Heartland in the Wake of Migration
Two Prehistoric Shell Caches from Southern Arizona
The Structure and Organization of Hohokam Shell Exchange
Irwin and Julian Hayden at the Grewe Site
The Trincheras Culture of Northern Sonora
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1956 - 2026 (71) |
| Highly cited | No |