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BULLETIN" 87, UlSriTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



specimen remains. (Cat. No. 231904, U.S.N.M. Diameter, 4 inches; 

 length, 8f inches.) 



An unusual cloud blower made of fine grained yellow tufa smoothly 

 finished on the exterior, and painted red-brown, and striped with 

 darker brown (fig. 259), has the interior hollowed out by vertical 

 gouging and working with a sharp stone tool 

 from either end producing an hourglass-shaped 

 ca^dty. Midway between the top and bottom of 

 the specimen a hole has been drilled through the 

 wall of the pipe (a), and near the lower margin 

 a series of 5 holes have been drilled, which it is 

 suggested were intended to promote the draught 

 of the blower. It appears, therefore, that this 

 blower was not used in the customary way by 

 ejecting the smoke with the breath, but that it 

 was set upright on the ground or some support 

 and the herbs thrown in on the charcoal, the 

 smoke naturally rising through the holes. Near 

 tlie upper edge a groove has been cut around the 

 blower for the passage of a cord to which feathers 

 may have been attached. The cloud blower was 

 found with other ceremonial objects in a large room of the great 

 ruin near the Spur Ranch house of Montague Stevens, near Luna, 

 New Mexico. (Cat. No. 231903, U.S.N.M. Length, 5 inches; upper 

 diameter, 2f ; lower diameter. If inches.) 



Fig. 258. — Clodd 

 blowee from 

 Spur Ranch. 



COSTUME PAHOS. 



In the Bear Creek shrines there were 

 many bundles of cord which are evidently 

 parts of costume worn about the loins 

 like the two bark skirts, front and back, 

 worn by the Mohave, Cocopa, and other 

 far southwestern tribes within 30 years. 

 Plate 23, figure 1, consists of a bundle 

 of red cords (outside) and a bundle of 

 black cords (inside) secured at the bend 

 with a thick red cotton cord. (Cat. No. 

 232161, U.S.N.M., Bear Creek Cave.) 

 Figure 2 consists of a bundle of red- 

 brown cord tied at the bend with a red cotton cord which is 

 shown at the right. (Cat. No. 232160, U.S.N.M., Bear Creek Cave.) 



In respect to other offerings of costume there were found in Bear 

 Creek Cave a few sandals, but these were of the usual size, had been 



Fig. 259. — Cloud blower from 

 Spur Ranch. 



