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U-Shaped “Ornaments” Identified as Finger-Loops from Atlatls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gordon F. Ekholm
Gordon F. Ekholm*
Affiliation:
American Museum of Natural History, New York City
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Abstract

U-shaped objects of shell or stone that occur commonly in northern and western Mexico have usually been identified as nose or ear ornaments. It has been found, however, that shell objects of this type appear as lashed-on finger-loops on two Mexican atlatls preserved in European museums, and this serves to identify the whole class of objects. A brief survey of the distribution of such finger-loops is given.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1962 , pp. 181 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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