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bird was secured to a staff. There is a probable relationship between 

 this object and the staffs with a bird carved on the upper extremity. 

 (See figs. 211-213.) The Hopi make birds with 

 movable wings that seem closely related to the 

 joinery birds from the caves (see figs. 214, 215). 

 (Cat. No. 35262, U.S.N.M.; length, 6-1 inches; 

 width, 4| inches. Collected by Henry and James 

 K. Metcalf.) 



A notable specimen of ancient art was taken 

 from the Bear Creek cave by visitors in the neigh- 

 borhood at the time the Museum-Gates explora- 

 tion was in progress. A photograph was secured, 

 but an attempt to reclaim the specimen failed. 

 It consists of two strips of wood crossed at right 

 angles and sewed together with yucca cord, rep- 

 resenting a bird, probably a woodpecker, in flight. 

 (PI. 21.) The colors used in painting this ob- 

 ject are white, black, salmon, yellow, red, blue, 

 and green, showing greater variety and a greater 

 discrimination in shades of color than in a ma- 

 jority of specimens from this locality. 

 A flat staff decorated with a very simple bird 

 convention and for support- 

 ing a plume paho is shown in 

 figiire 217. (Cat. No. 246580, 

 U.S.N.M.; Bear Creek Cave.) 

 A plume or bird paho 

 from a cave near Silver 



III 



City, New Mexico, collected 



Fig. 217. — Bird design 

 on plume staff 

 FROM Beak Creek 



Cave. 



by Henry and James K. Met- 

 calf, consists of strips of thin 

 wood sewed to a crosspiece 

 (fig. 218), the central strip forming the sup- 

 port. The colors used in decorating this object 

 are red on the body and the tips of the feathers 

 blue. This paho appears to represent a feather 

 plume or bird like that shown in figures 5 and 6, 

 plate 22, but ruder in conception and execution. 

 (Cat. No. 35263, U.S.N.M.; length, 6 inches; 

 width, 2| inches.) 



Another instructive paho from the same locality 

 is formed of thin, soft strips cut from the flower 

 stalk of dasylirion and a disk of gourd joined together with a sewing 

 of fiber cord. (Figs. 219, 220.) The disk is painted red and the 

 strips of wood green and white. Remains of cord at the lower por- 



PiQ. 218. — Plumbs on 

 bird paho from 



Silver City, New 

 Mexico. 



