In addition to the head-dress the Pericúis are distinguished by a girdle highly ornamented with pearls and mother-of-pearl shells.
Most of the stone pipes, inlaid with fragments of Haliotis or pearl shells, so common in ethnological collections, are their handiwork.
The only thing which seemed repellent to Carey was the growing heap of pearl shells, and the work upon which Bostock was engaged, which the boy looked upon with disgust.
It took me some months to accomplish this, but eventually I had removed everything--even the greater part of the cargo of pearl shells.
I kept count of the long days by means of pearl shells, for I had not used up the whole cargo in the walls of my hut.
Altogether there were about thirty tons of pearl shells on board, and at first I took to diving for them merely as a sort of pastime.
These were lying about in heaps mixed with white mother-of-pearl shells, as big as your two fists, and shaped like a snail-shell.
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