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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig. 339. — Orna- 

 ment of votive 

 offbeing fuom 

 Bear Creek 

 Cave. 



or sun disks. One of these draAvn in detail is shown in figure 221. 



It is made of two pieces of thin wood, sewed to a crosspiece and 

 painted black, red, and green, and is probably part of 

 a miniature headdress or mask representing a flower 

 or sun shield. (Cat. No. 246580, U.S.N.M.; diameter, 

 1^ inches.) 



A painted stone slab (fig. 51) was found in a cere- 

 monial room at the Spur Ranch near Luna, New 

 Mexico, together wdth tubular pipes 

 (see fig. 258), and other objects related 

 to cult. It is alternately banded with 

 red and black over ends and back which 

 reminds one of the striping on the body 

 of some of the Hopi tihus or so-called 

 " dolls." 



ORNAMENTATION OF OFFERINGS. 



The ornamentation of these offerings 

 is interesting both from its variety and 

 from the way in which the difficulties 

 of applying a connected pattern to 

 round and irregular surfaces had been 

 met. As a rule the ornamentation is in 

 bands, which offers the simplest method 

 of decorating a rod (fig. 339), but often they are in 

 the form of snake-lightning, zigzags or more compli- 

 cated ornaments, shown in figure 840. One very beau- 

 tiful design from a fragment of a rod is shown in 

 figure 345, 345 a. Another pleasing design is shown 

 in figure 341. Sometimes a compli- 

 cated design occurs on a rod, as shown 

 in figures 342, 342 a. The painting is 

 in black, green, red, and white, the 

 colors bright and pleasing. The de- 

 signs on the rods are like those on the 

 arrows for which in some instances the 

 rods appear to stand. (Cat. No. 246000, 

 U.S.N.M. ; Bear Creek.) Figure 340 is 16 inches long. 

 Decorations on flat objects are shown in figures 343, 

 Pig. 341.— Orna- 343 ^^ r^J^^ qj^ the decorations of the tablets. A curious 

 OFFERING FROM decoratlon formed by scratching zigzag lines in black- 

 bbar Creek ened wood is shown in figure 344. (Cat. No. 245999, 

 ^^^''- U.S.N.M., Bear Creek Cave.) 



In other cases a design is made by winding a band around a rod and 

 smoking the exposed areas. Very smoothly worked and accurately 



Fig. 340. — Orna- 

 ment OF VOTIVE 

 offering from 

 Bear Creek 



Cave. 



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