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first objective evidcnee we have to pnne it, and the fact that these 

 objects were found in the shrine of a sacred room would indicate 

 that they were smoked ceremonially, as is customary in modern 

 pueblo rites, l^vidently the priests when en,<,faged in a ceremonial 

 smoke sat about this shrine and after smoking;- threw their pipes as 

 oiTerings into the fireplace. Probably as with the Hopi everv great 



Fig. 94. — Pipes and other objects in shrine, 

 as found. In addition to pipes many other 

 objects were found, among which may be 

 mentioned small black and white bowl, flint 

 knives, idols, and " septarian nodule." ( Pho- 

 tograph by J. W. Fewkes. ) 



ceremony opened and closed with the formal smoking rite at this 

 shrine, and one can in imagination see the priests as the\' blew whiffs 

 of smoke to the cardinal ])oints to bring rain. 



The discover)- of ])ipes for ceremonial smoking in a Mesa \'erde 

 kiva is a significanl one. indicating that the ancient ])riests of the 



