Show QUEER v J TURE ABALONE FURNISHES FUi FOOD AND JEV Shells like these are aro highly prized for lor making ornaments By AUSTIN H CLARK Smithsonian Institution At Matsushima Island off orr o the th northern coast or of Korea this shell forms the object ot of a fairly airly Important tant fishery the animal being animal lug be-lug cut cutout cutout cutout out and dried for or- or food This fishery Is 13 carried led on by the I Korean orean women They swim about pushing before them a waterproof basket and Ed wearing only what looks like a pair of old automobile goggles over their ees eyes When they thoy tee see a shell thell clinging to the rocks on the tite bottom the they let go the basket and swim down through the water to It it bring brine It up and nd drop it Into the basket They aro able ble to swim down to Incredible distances When ben the basket has all the shells shell it can c carty they swim ashore with the catch Whenever tho the abalones are found of oC sufficient size and in sat suf sufficient numbers number they are always In demand Iemand both for food and for Cor Corthe forthe forthe the manufacture of or ornaments The kind shown above the Kam ICam abalone lives from Kam south to northern Japan and Korea and also along alone the shores of or continental Alaska be- be beIng belog Ine be-Ine log Ing particularly abundant about Sitka Though this abalone Is not large It i Is very pretty the inside being white with a beautiful pearly play or colors The Indians of oC Alaska make beautiful ornaments from It |