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was most useful in furnishing feathers for the manufacture of warm 

 clothing (for manufacture of costume see p. 71), much needed at this 

 elevation, and were kept for the purpose like sheej) at a later period. 

 The discovery of ancient turkey compounds is mentioned by the 

 earlier explorers in the Pueblo region, and Castaiieda was presented 

 at Acoma in 1540 with numbers of (turkey) " cocks with very big 

 wattles." ^ Castaiieda also mentions in his description of Pueblo life 

 that " there are a gxeat many native fowls in these provinces, and 

 cocks with great hanging chins." ^ Mention is also made of the use 

 of turkey feathers for clothing. 



A foot, with leg bone attached, of a species of grackle {Quiscalus) 

 completes the list of bird remains found in the cave, except feathers, 

 which belong to a number of species identified bj^ Mr. E. W. Nelson. 

 The collections from this region show the importance of bird life in 



a be d 



Fig. 3. — Teadb bundle of parrot feathers from Tdlarosa Cavb. 



domestic economy, costume, and religion. For the extent to which 

 birds were known to the Pueblos one need but examine the ornitho- 

 logical vocabular}!^ of the Hopi by Dr. E. A. Mearns, IT. S. A.,^ Dr. 

 J. Walter Fewkes's description of the symbolism on Sikyatki pot- 

 tery,'* and Mrs. M. C. Stevenson's memoir on the Zuni.^ 



Raven {Corvus corax sinuatus). 



Bluebird {Sialia mexicana Baird). 



Parrot {Rhyncho'psitta pachyrhynchus) . Feathers of this parrot 

 were much prized (see fig. 3). 



Big macaw {Ara militaris). This bird is not found farther north 

 than extreme southern Sonora, and the feather must have passed into 

 the hands of the Tularosa people through aboriginal commerce, which 

 in Mexico, as Sahagim relates, was conducted by traders of feathers, 

 etc., to distant places. 



1 The Coronado Eixpedition, 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnology, p. 491. 



2 Idem, p. 521. 



3 Amcr. Anthropolosist, vol. 9, Dec. 1896, p. 301. 



* .Vrcheolosicfil Expedition to Arizona in 1895, 17th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amor. Ethnology. 

 '■ The Zufii Indians, 23d Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnology. 



