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BULLETIN" 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



^o. 246575, U.S.N.M., Bear Creek Cave; length If inches.) A set of 

 four cane dice were found at Chevlon, near Winslow, Arizona, in 

 the ruins of a large pueblo, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes,^ and also 

 figured by Stewart Culin.^ All the information available on the 

 subject may be found in the latter report. The lower section of plate 

 25 shows a set of 13 bone dice (one small die not appearing), the 

 skin bag container and tying string of yucca fiber. The dice have 

 been coated with gray mud on one side and some of these bear 

 scratchings which may be seen under the coating. The specimen 



was found intact in the debris of 

 Tularosa Cave. The large dice are 

 five-eighths and the smaller three- 

 eighths inch in diameter. ( Cat. No. 

 246361, U.S.N.M.) 



A number of bowed sticks (figs. 

 1-6, pi, 25), found in Bear Creek 

 Cave, were identified by Stewart 

 Culin as tipcat sticks. Figure 1 is 

 cut out and scarfed at intervals to 

 secure an even bend and the other 

 sticks are scarfed on one side. They 

 are painted in ceremonial colors — 

 red with black bands near either 

 end. Length, 6-8 inches. (Cat. Nos. 

 246025, 246361, U.S.N.M.) Several 

 of the sticks show traces of a wrap- 

 ping which was bound around the 

 middle. Other objects connected 

 with games are shown in the sec- 

 tion on stone, page 21, and it is 

 probable that certain rings (pi. 12) and other specimens in the col- 

 lection may be related to games. 



Fig. 336. — Cross paho from San 

 Francisco River. 



MISCELLANEOUS PAHOS. 



A paho in the form of a cross was found in a small cave on the 

 San Francisco River, a short distance above the mouth of Blue Eiver, 

 Arizona. It is composed of two halved stalks of yucca, the shorter tied 

 at right angles on the longer by means of wrappings of yucca leaf strip. 

 (Fig. 336.) Cross offerings are known in the rituals of the present 

 Pueblos, where they represent the sky being (star, heart of the sky). 

 (Cat. No. 246554, U.S.N.M. Dimensions, 12^ inches by 7^ inches.) 

 The Pueblo cross was observed by the early Spanish explorers.^ 



1 22d Ann. Rept., Bur. Amer. Ethnology, p. 101. 

 - 25th Ann. Rept., Bur. Amer. Ethnology, p. 165. 



s The Coronado Expedition, 16th Ann. Rept., Bur. Amer. Ethnology, pt. 1, pp. 518, 544, 

 .548, and 555. 



