ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA EEGION. 133 



through. It is possible that the object is a child's doll or toy, on 

 which much labor had been expended. 



Mr. A. J. Connell, acting forest supervisor of the Gila National 

 Forest, sent to the Museum, through the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, a mummy of infant from a cave on the West Fork 

 of the upper Gila River called Gila Cliff Dwelling. This mummy 

 (pi. 29, fig. 1) is of a child a few months old. It lies on a wildcat 

 skin, and was so buried in the debris of the cave. With the body is a 

 hank of fiber of yucca (fig. 2) held by a winding of yucca cord, and 

 an object, ajoparently a doll (fig. 4), made of a core of cord, the ma- 

 terial of which appears to be the wool of the mountain goat. A 

 small mass, apparently dried food, and a small section of wildcat 

 skin (fig. 3) also accompany the mummy. The clotliing consists of 

 a sleeveless jacket of rabbit fur and a waist garment in form of a 

 band made of pretty downy feathers of the blue jay and other birds. 

 This band is wrapped around the body, and at one extremity is 

 attached a rabbit-fur band which passes between the legs and is 

 secured by a cord on the other end of the band. The weaving of 

 both the garments is on fiber cord; the rabbit skin is cut in strips, 

 twisted and held in place by twined weaving. The doll and mass 

 of fiber (doll bed) were found close to the body. Some needles of 

 longleaf pine were with the mummy. The burial was as in that 

 described in the Tularose Cave in a bed of grass and was covered 

 with cinders and debris from the walls of the cave. (Cat. No. 273340, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



