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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. yS 



Fig. 211. — 

 leg bone use 

 ers attache 

 ornament, 

 width \".) 



Incised deer 

 d,withfeath- 

 d, as a hair 

 (Length 7V"; 



Many bone needles were found in the rooms, a 

 few bearing incised decorations. One bone object, 

 figure 211, was a hairpin or ornament worn in the 

 hair. Similar carved bones with attached feathers 

 are still used by the Hopi and Zufii warriors, as 

 show^n in the discussion of the possible use of one 

 of these objects from Youngs Canyon, 12 miles 

 from Elden Pueblo. On the cranium of one of the 

 skeletons, figure 212, found in the Elden Pueblo 

 cemetery there was a similar bone hairpin, still in 

 place. 



Two cemeteries were located in the work, one on 

 the eastern, the other on the northern side of the 

 pueblo, ^lany skeletons and mortuary objects 

 were taken from these burial places. There may 

 have been cemeteries also on the south and west 

 sides, as a burial was found near the west wall a 

 number of years ago when a logging road was 

 constructed through the pine forest. Although a 

 few^ " test holes " were dug on these sides, no 

 systematic excavations were made there by the 

 Bureau's expedition, which confined itself to the 

 east and north cemeteries of the pueblo. These 

 cemeteries, however, were not completely dug out 

 on account of limitation of funds, but other 

 interments may be brought to light by future 

 archeologists. 



There was nothing on the surface of the ground 

 to indicate the position of skeletons in the ceme- 

 teries, but the remains of the dead were found by 

 trenching or by probing with iron rods. The 

 number of skeletons located was about 150, many 

 of which were in fairly good condition, but in a 

 much larger number the component bones were 

 either missing or so much broken that they were of 

 very little scientific value. After a skeleton had 

 been located and the mortuary bowls and other 

 objects which accompanied it had been removed 

 with care they were replaced about the remains and 

 a photograph made of the interment in situ, show- 

 ing the relative position of accompanying objects 



(fig- 213)- 

 There is some variety in the positions in which 



the dead were placed in their graves. As a rule, 



