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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 72 



Among the instructive specimens collected in Painted Kiva House 

 should be mentioned a rim basket (fig. 74) and a woven headstrap of 

 yucca fiber. The unique object shown in figure 75 reminds one 



Fig. 75. — Unidentified object. Painted Kiva House, 

 Mesa Verde National Park. Size : sH inches long. 

 (Photograph by De Lancey Gill.) 



of Navaho " bugaboos," sometimes found farther down the San Juan 

 but not yet recorded from Mesa Verde. In a rear room which gave 

 every evidence of having been a granary or bin for storage there were 

 found numerous ears of corn with kernels entire, beans, and squash 

 seeds. The belief is widespread that cliff-dweller seed corn when 



