They adorned their bodies with strings of shell beads four to six fingers in breadth.

Grave goods found with the deceased included five large shell beads and a clay pot.

A shell bead was found under the skull.

The name is the Santo Domingo Indian word for shell bead.

Manufacturing of shell beads, with accompanying production of drills to make holes for stringing and sewing, was important.

If the edges of the shell beads are chipped, the shells were harvested and manually broken into shape.

There was an abundance of shell beads that were native manufactured.

And though you might not think of shell beads or stone rings as coins, they did.

Flora shook her head and her shell beads clattered.