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Rings for the finger : $b from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.
Kunz, George Frederick
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[43] See the writer’s “Magic of Jewels and Charms,” Philadelphia and
London, 1915, pp. 352, 353; colored plate opp. p. 352.
[44] Warren K. Moorehead, “A Narration of Exploration in New Mexico,
Arizona, Indiana, etc.,” Andover, Mass., 1906, p. 89, fig. 45.
[45] Not named after Charles L. Tiffany.
[46] Communicated by Walter Hough, Acting Head Curator, Dept. of
Anthropology, United States National Museum, Washington, D. C.
[47] Communicated by Joseph K. Dixon, Secretary of the National
American Indian Memorial Association.
[48] The details in this and the following paragraphs are taken from
Washington Matthews, “Navajo Silversmiths,” in the Second Annual Report
of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1880–1881, Washington, 1881, pp.
171–178.
[49] _Op. cit._, between pp. 174 and 175, plate showing silversmith’s
shop set up near Fort Wingate.
[50] “An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language,” published by
the Franciscan Fathers, Saint Michaels, Arizona, 1910, p. 271.
[51] This is a well-printed octavo of 536 pages, with a most
comprehensive index.
[52] _Op. cit._, pp. 283, 284.
[53] Communicated by Admiral Peary in a letter to the author, February
13, 1916.
[54] C. W. King, “Antique Gems,” London, 1860, p. 281; citing Ælian,
iii, 19.
[55] Frederick William Fairholt, “Rambles of an Archæologist,” London,
1871, p. 86, with figure of ring.
[56] J. P. Mariette, “Traité des pierres gravées,” Paris, 1750, vol. i,
p. 18.
[57] See Marshall, “Catalogue of the finger rings, Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman, in the departments of antiquities, British Museum,” London,
1907, p. xxvi, note.
[58] Archæological Journal, London, 1863, vol. xx, p. 75.
[59] London, 1853, p. 6.
[60] O. M. Dalton, “Franks Bequest, Catalogue of the Finger Rings,
Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later” (British
Museum), London, 1912, p. 122, No. 792, pl. xi.
[61] X. Barbier de Montault, “Le costume et les usages ecclésiastiques
selon la tradition romaine,” Paris, 1897, vol. i, pp. 176, 177.
[62] Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report of MSS. in various
collections, vol. iv, Dublin, 1907, p. 59.
[63] Plinii, Hist. Nat., lib. xxxiii, cap. xxv.
[64] “Neuhebräisches und Chaldäisches Wörterbuch,” by Jacob Levy,
Leipzig, 1879, vol. ii, p. 139, s. v. tabba’ath.
[65] Artemidorus, “Oneirocritica,” ii, 5.
[66] Davenport, “Jewelry,” Chicago, 1908, pp. 127, 128.
[67] Frederick William Fairholt, “Rambles of an Artist,” London, n. d.
(1865?), p. 144, fig. 177.
[68] John Lathrop Motley, “The Rise of the Dutch Republic,” New York,
1856, Vol. iii, pp. 558, 559, citing a curious Dutch pamphlet published
at Leyden in 1582 and consisting of two letters, one from Bruges, dated
July 25, 1582, the other written two days later from Antwerp.
[69] C. J. S. Thompson, “Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries,” London,
n.d., 2d. ed., p. 123.
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