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different color and differently formed were found with the skeleton 11 in terrace
II at between +20.5 and +22.5 feet (N.K. 114; fig. 296; plate 40, fig. 2): One
large one, elongated, with four rounded edges of unequal size, made out of a yellow-
white material; 58 small ones of similar stone, approximately double-conical, with
truncated points; and 11 made from blood-red stone, nearly ring-shaped, but
unequally cut (cf. fig. 296).

With another skeleton (No. 13), in the same locality, +22 feet 5 inches, there
occurred, besides the three lead spirals, two small white stone beads of about the
same form and kind as those just mentioned (N.K.
143; fig. 297; plate 40, fig. 3). The third skeleton,
No. 12, found there had for a burial gift 67 small
white stone beads (N.K. 144; fig. 298; plate 40, fig.
8), most of them of the same form as those just de-
scribed—cylindrical with beveled edges. The other
beads found are separate finds. One was barrel-shaped,
of white stone (N.K. 140; fig. 299; plate 40, fig. 11)
from terrace II, between +20 feet 5 inches and +22
feet 5 inches; another, a small whitish stone bead, cylin-
drical, with unequal sides; another, the half of a bead
of polished marble in the form of an angular disk (N.K.
241; fig. 300); both of the latter
from the north digging II, between
+20 feet 5 inches and +24 feet
5 inches; and lastly, an angular
bead of dead-white stone (N.K. 243; fig. 301) from north digging IV.

The clay beads are either double-conical, like N.K. 152 (fig. 302), from terrace
VII at +23 feet, or spherical, like N.K. 219 (fig. 303), from north digging II, between
−20 feet 5 inches and −24 feet 5 inches. Similar double-conical ones were found
in the west digging between +13 feet 4 inches and +18 feet (N.K. 24); also in
the shaft of the west gallery between 0 and −1 foot.

Miscellaneous.—There is little else to be noted in the way of ornament. A
clay knob, somewhat pear-shaped, with impressions in the upper edge (N.K. 57;
fig. 304; plate 40, fig. 13), comes from the north digging II, between −12 and
−13 feet. A more simple clay knob (N.K. 251) is shown in fig. 305 and plate
40, fig. 12. An object made of gypsum (N.K. 43; fig. 306; plate 40, fig. 4), also a
knob, is from north digging 1, between −10 feet and −11 feet 5 inches. An
ornamental disk of gypsum with central hole (N.K. 112; fig. 307; plate 40, fig.
14), is of undetermined derivation.

FROM UPPER STRATA OF NORTH KURGAN, CULTURE II.

Beads.—The beads of the upper strata are all burial gifts of the skeletons
found in the terraces. Those found in terrace 1a (cf. above, page 89) are N.K.
1, fig. 308; plate 40, fig. 1); two carnelian beads, one light-colored and cylin-
drical, the other dark and ring-shaped; a bead of lapis lazuli, bluish-white