G is painted black on a piece of wood (G нарисовано черной краской на кусочке дерева). (The bead after G is a small shell (бусина после G — маленькая раковина), and not a clay bead (а не глиняная бусина). I don’t know why they did that (я не знаю, почему они сделали так).)
H is a kind of a big brown cowrie-shell (Н — разновидность большой коричневой раковины каури;
cowrie ['kaurI], month [mAnT], grind [graInd]
G is painted black on a piece of wood. (The bead after G is a small shell, and not a clay bead). I don’t know why they did that.) H is a kind of a big brown cowrie-shell. I is the inside part of a long shell ground down by hand. (It took Tegumai three months to grind it down.) J is a fish hook in mother-of-pearl. L is the broken spear in silver. (K ought to follow J of course, but the necklace was broken once and they mended it wrong.) K is a thin slice of bone scratched and rubbed in black.
M is on a pale gray shell (М — на бледной серой раковине).
N is a piece of what is called porphyry with a nose scratched on it (N — кусочек того, что называется порфиром с носом, нацарапанным на нем) (Tegumai spent five months polishing this stone (Тегумай потратил пять месяцев, полируя этот камень;
war [wL], polish ['pOlIS], saying ['seIIN]
M is on a pale gray shell. N is a piece of what is called porphyry with a nose scratched on it (Tegumai spent five months polishing this stone.) O is a piece of oyster-shell with a hole in the middle. P and Q are missing. They were lost a long time ago, in a great war, and the tribe mended the necklace with the dried rattles of a rattlesnake, but no one ever found P and Q. That is how the saying began, ‘You must mind your P’s and Q’s.’ R is, of course, just a shark’s tooth. S is a little silver snake. T is the end of a small bone, polished and shiny.