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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig. 200. — Crotch 



A number of crotch pahos (fig. 200) from Bear Creek Cave are in 

 the collection, and they are provisionally related to the crook. The 

 specimen shown is painted red. (Cat. No. 246026, U.S.N.M. Length 

 of fragment, 3 inches.) 



ROUNDEL PAHOS. 



There is a group of pahos which occurs in some 

 number in the Bear Creek Cave, consisting of dressed 

 rods about one-half inch in diameter, showing great 

 care and considerable skill in their manufacture. All 

 the specimens found were broken, and the only one 

 which gives any indication of their length was a staff 

 which measures 36 inches. The specimen shown in 

 figure 201 is the upper portion of a staff worked out 

 from a larger stem of wood, is painted black and 

 green and has wrappings of vellow and brown cot- 

 BEAR GREEK tou cord arouud it. The remains of a wrapping of 

 ^^'^^- 3'ucca fiber, probably for the attachment of feathers, 



is preserved around the lower roundel. (Length, 9 inches. Cat. 



No. 245993, U.S.N.M. Bear Creek Cave, Blue River, Arizona.) 

 A variety of roundels is shown on plate 20. 



They are painted red, green, and blue, and a few 



of them retain cord wrappings. Generally they 



have a button-shaped head (figs. 1 and 6), or flat- 

 tened (figs. 3, 5, and 7), and sometimes a hole is 



drilled through the flattened head (figs. 8 and 9). 



The roundels are sometimes plain, as in figures 



1, 7, and 8, or grooved, as in figures 3, 4, 5, and 6. 



The roundel, figure 2, suggests the throwstick. 



(Seep. 19.) 

 Pahos carved very much in the same way as 



these from the Blue Eiver were found by Doctor 



Fewkes^ in the graves at Sikyatki. Some of the 



fragments appear to be of rods of considerable 



size. Fewkes connects these pahos with the Flute 



Society. Specimens like these have been found 



in the cliff houses of Mesa Verde and in San Juan 



Valley, New Mexico. The Hopi at present make 



use of splashing sticks for agitating the waters 



of the spring during the flute ceremony. These 



number seven, carried in a pack and are about 



a foot long. They have a roundel, carving near the top. Simi- 

 lar sticks have been found in the Balcony House in the Mesa Verde. 



It is possible that these rods may have some connection with those 



under discussion. 



Fig. 201. — Roundel 

 PAHO FROM Bear 

 Creek Cave. 



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