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figure is evidently the ceremonial ' blanket of a Pueblo woman, for no 

 man v^^ears this kind of garment. It has a white border and from its 

 middle there hangs a number of parallel lines representing cords or a 

 fringe, evidently the ends of a sash by which the blanket was formerly 

 tied about the waist. It is instructive to notice that we find similar 

 parallel lines represented in a picture of a girl from Sikyatki'' where 

 the blanket has the same rectangular form as in the prehistoric Mim- 

 bres picture. There can be no question that in this case it represents 

 a garment bound with a girdle, or that the picture was intended for 

 that of a girl or a woman. We have in this picture evidence that the 

 same method of arranging the hair was used in the Mimbres Valley 

 as in northern New Mexico. The leg wrappings suggest those used 

 by Pueblo women, especially the Hopi, whose leggings are made of 

 long strips of buckskin attached to the moccasins and wound around 

 the lower limbs. 



PRIEST SMOKING 



The third human figure, found on a black and white bowl from a 

 Mimbres ruin, is duplicated by another of the same general character 

 depicted on the opposite side of the bowl. These figures (fig. 14) are 

 evidently naked men with bands of white across the faces. The eyes 

 are represented in the Egyptian fashion. In one hand each figure 

 holds a tube, evidently a cloud-blower or a pipe, with feathers 

 attached to one extremity, and in the other hand each carries a tri- 

 angular object resembling a Hopi rattle or tinkler. The posture of 

 these figures suggest sitting or squatting, but the objects in the 

 extended left hand would indicate dancing. The figure is identified 

 as a man performing a ceremonial smoke which accompanies cere- 

 monial rites. 



MAN WITH CURVED STICK 



One of the most instructive food bowls found at Oldtown, now 

 owned by Mr. Osborn, has on it a picture of two hunters, one on each 

 side of an animal (fig. 15). One of these hunters carries in his hand 

 a stick crooked at the end, its form suggesting a throwing stick.' 

 Both hunters have laid aside their quivers, bows, and arrows, which 

 are shown behind them. The picture of an animal between them has 

 been so mutilated by " killing " or breaking the bowl that it is impos- 



^ Called also a " wedding blanket " since it is presented to a girl on marriage 

 by her husband's family. 



^ 17th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pi. 129, fig. a. 



^ The hand of the hunter pictured on a bowl already described (fig. 13), also 

 carried a curved stick. 



