l8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8l 



teeth or notches on both sides and one with the teeth only on one side. 

 Their use is unknown, although they suggest the notched stick which 

 is used by many of the southwestern Indians to accentuate the rhythm 

 of a song. The notched stick is placed with one end resting on a 

 drum head or the bottom of an inverted basket, and another stick is 

 rubbed across the notches ; the noise thus produced f alUng u^xjn the 

 regular beat of the measure serves to accentuate the rhythm. 



Only a few of the best bone articles are shown in the illustrations. 

 These artifacts were in great abundance. 



PIPES 



Although only one whole pipe was found, fragments from several 

 others are sufficient to indicate that the ordinary form was that of the 

 tubular pipe or cloudblower. All were made of pottery clay. The 

 best specimen (pi. ii, a), found between the double walls of the kiva 

 and about two feet from the floor, is 2^ inches long, f inch in diameter 

 at the large end and | inch at the mouth piece ; it is red in color and 

 was decorated by a series of striations beginning -j inch from the 

 mouth and running to the edge of the bowl. The clay of which it was 

 made is so hard that it was thought at first to be made of stone. 



The fragment shown on plate 1 1 , b, is from a cloudblower made 

 of the black cooking-pot paste. It is 2 inches long, | inch wide at the 

 top, and y^ inch at the mouth, and is decorated with an incised snake 

 design. 



The indented fragment (pi. ii, c) has a grayish black soft paste, 

 and measures 2y\ inches long, f inch wade at the top of the fragment, 

 and f inch at the mouth. 



Plate II, d, shows a fragment from a pipe made of soft black 

 paste, with line and dot incised decoration. It is of the cloudblower 

 shape, and is i:j inches long and | inch in greatest diameter. 



The last fragment shown (pi. ii, e) has a gray paste and is dec- 

 orated with 7 incised horizontal lines which do not show in the illus- 

 tration. It measured f inch in greatest diameter and if inches in 

 length. 



FETISH OBJECTS 



The prehistoric Indians in the Southwest had a tendency to collect 

 curious fossils, concretions, brightly colored stones, and other natural 

 objects, and it seems quite probable that they were used as fetishes or 

 medicine stones. The people at Llano were no exceptions to the rule, 

 and a number of fossils and odd-shaped stones suggesting such usage 

 were found. Among the fossils are two which are interesting because 



