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with blue spots and cylindrical; and a pendant of lapis lazuli, blue with white
spots. Of identically the same material as the last-named bead was an irregular
cylindrical bead (N.K. 26; fig. 309; plate 40, fig. 10), found with skeleton 2 of
terrace 1. The other skeleton, No. 5, in terrace 1, +30 feet, also had burial
gifts, which in material and form class themselves with those just mentioned (N.K.
50; fig. 310; plate 40, fig. 6); four beads of lapis lazuli, of which two are angular,
the others irregularly double-conical, with truncated points; two of them are
bluish-white with blue spots, the third light-blue with white spots, the fourth uni-
formly light-blue. A large quantity of very small cylindrical beads of yellowish-
white stone were found with the skeleton 19 in terrace v, +29 feet (N.K. 222; fig.
311; plate 40, fig. 5).

FROM MIDDLE AND LOWER STRATA OF SOUTH KURGAN, CULTURE III.

Beads.—There is only a single bead to be noted from the skeleton graves
of the South Kurgan—a small, cylindrical, yellowish-white stone bead (S.K.
244; fig. 312; plate 41, fig. 16). It was found April
22, 1904, in terrace B, with skeleton 19, +27 feet.
All the other beads were separate finds, which
are described as follows: Two beads, one gray-
striped and barrel-shaped, the other gray-green with
dark veins and annular (S.K. 104; fig. 313; plate
41, fig. 11). They were found in terrace B, between
+25 and +26.25 feet. One bead (S.K. 287; fig.
314; plate 41, fig. 5) is very remarkable on account
of its material and form. It comes from terrace B,
between +19 and +20 feet. It is somewhat flat,
the shape of a prune stone, elliptical in cross-section,
and shows a peculiar pattern on both sides—dark-
gray on a light-gray ground. It is a polished pebble,
containing a fossil. Another bead (S.K. 157) of len-
ticular cross-section and cylindrical in longitudinal
section, with indrawn sides and made of milk-white
alabaster with water-gray stripes, is shown in fig. 315, and plate 41, fig. 12. It comes
from terrace C, between +23 feet 2 inches and +26 feet 2 inches. At the same
terrace, between +21 feet 2 inches and +23 feet 2 inches, there were found two
beads (S.K. 218; fig. 316; plate 41, fig. 4). One is made of carnelian, nearly
spherical; the other of dark-brown lapis lazuli, in pyramidal form and pierced
at the top like a pendant.
There were found numerous double-conical stone beads in the form of whorls,
made from variegated materials and always well polished. They are either low
and wide or high and narrow. A gray-green specimen (S.K. 193) is shown in
fig. 317 and plate 42, fig. 4. It is from terrace B, between +21 feet 5 inches
and +23 feet 7 inches. In terrace C, between +21 feet 2 inches and +23 feet