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Plate VB Bahamas: Top: The 2009 2x2 m excavation at the Minnis-Ward site (SS-3), San Salvador (photo: J. Blick). Bottom: Drawing a soil profile at the site, June 2010 (photo: R. Kim). Plate VC Bahamas: Top: Tyler G. Hill sorting shell artifacts from the 2010 excavation at the Minnis-Ward site (SS-3)(photo: R. Kim). Bottom: Shell beads in various stages of manufacture recovered in 2004 from SS-3/04-2 at the Minnis-Ward site (ca. A.D. 985)(photo: J. Blick). Plate VD Bahamas: Top: Several bead blanks and the resultant circular disc beads (SS-3/10-1). Note the unfinished drill hole in blank 2. Bottom: A bead blank and a variety of finished shell beads (SS-3/10-5)(photos: R. Kim and T. Hill). E Plate VIA Bahamas: Top: A suite of beads from SS-3/10-4 showing the various stages of manufacture. Bottom: “Ghost” beads in various stages of manufacture. The fourth bead dates to ca. A.D. 985 (photos: R. Kim and T. Hill). Plate VIB Bahamas: Top: A variety of Oliva “tinkler” beads (ca. A.D. 900-1400). Bottom: Cylindrical diorite bead (SS-3/ST3- 10); naturally perforated worm-shell bead (SS-3/04-3); unfinished rectangular coral bead (SS-3/ST-A9) (photos: R. Kim and T. Hill). Plate VIC An early historic Taíno chief’s belt with zemi figure from the Greater Antilles, ca. 1530. It is made of cotton and decorated with white and red shell beads, likely Strombus and Chama sarda (Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna).
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