ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA REGION. 



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ing end, the knots and roughness of the branch being planed down 

 by rubbing on a stone, as in other specimens; length, 28^ inches (Cat. 

 No. 24645G«, U.S.N.M.) ; 5, G, and 7 are digging sticks worn down by 

 nse and subsequently employed as fire tenders or other temporary 

 purposes. Plate 14 contains two pieces of wood working, one (fig. 1) 

 a shovellike implement of bark and the other (fig. 2) a shell of 

 wood from a cottonwood tree showing plainly the marks of a stone 



1 

 Fig. 140. — Examples of arrow construction from Blue River. 



excavating tool (Cat. Kos. 246199, 246205, U.S.N.M.), lower cave 

 at Johnson's Blue River. The remaining figures are fragments of a 

 basketiy image found in the same cave. (Cat. No. 246195, U.S.N.M.) 



ARROW MAKING. 



The shafts are of reed, whose only preparation was the smoothing 

 of the joints by removal of slight inequalities on the leaf scar. The 



