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The hook end, probably forced through the braid of the scalp lock - the hook serving as a means of securely tying it thereto.
The mere fact of hooking it through a tightly braided lock would, in most cases, have held it in place.
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skin no doubt ornamented.

stick possibly wrapped with rawhide or buckskin and carried up over the [[?]] to assure firmness.

HAIR DRESSING (Handbook of the American Indians. VOL - I. pg 524) "The same style of shaving the head and roaching the hair was common among eastern and western tribes, who  braided and generally hung the scalp lock with ornaments."
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1 - Between femur & right elbow.
2 - Over left elbow.
3 - On left humerus, on the thorax
4 - Right humerus.
5 - Right side of thorax.
6 - On the thorax.
7 - Upper front of pelvis. [[?]] on Thorax
8 - under the thorax
9 - Right side of thorax
10 - above the pelvis. Child.
11 - Outer side of left shoulder
12 - On the chest
13 - Between femur & trunk
14 - near the pelvis
15 - Below the chest
16 - at left shoulder
17 - Right side of thorax
18 - On left elbow.
19 - Lower part of right humerus.
20 - Lower part of thorax
21 - Lower part of thorax.
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Burial 82 - at this joint hang a [[sizer?]] of quartz its longer axis corresponding with that of the childs body.
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22 - at the pelvis
23 - Back of pelvis.
24 - Outer side of right elbow

Transcription Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roach_(headdress)