Two or three shell bracelets were excavated from Mimbres ruins, and
there were also found carved shells and tinklers not unlike those of
northern New Mexico ruins. Some of these when excavated were found
near the head and are supposed to have been earrings. Five shell rings
were still on the bones of the forearm of a child when found. One of
the shell bracelets owned by Mr. Osborn was cracked but was pierced on
each side of the break, indicating where it had been mended; another
had figures incised on its surface, and a third had the edges notched,
imparting to it a zigzag shape, like that of a serpent. Many shell
beads, spires of shells used for tinklers, and other shell objects, all
made of genera peculiar to the Pacific Ocean, were found during the
excavations.