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SMITHSONIAN" .\1 ISCEI-LAXICOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 74 



tliough the head and forelegs were broken from the body the hindlegs 

 were intact ; a long search for the broken anterior end of the idol was 

 a disappointment. The indentations on the surface due to chipping 

 were plainly seen ; and the tail was especially well made, resting along 

 the dorsal line. This position of the tail is. in fact, what led the 

 writer to identify the rude image as a representation of the mountain 

 lion, for among the Hopi a picture of the puma painted on the north 

 side of the warrior chamber has a similarly ])laced tail. The Hopi 

 priests say that a Mountain Lion clan formerly inhabited the same 

 cliff dwellings in the north as the Snake people. The position of 



Fig. 98. — Stone idol of a bird. Views from front A, and one-half lateral B. 

 Pipe Shrine House. Size : 4^4 >^ -H -^ -M inches. 



this shrine and the accompanying idol would indicate that the piuna 

 was the guardian of the south while at W'alpi this animal is associated 

 with the north. Among the Hopi, the mountain lion is also the guard- 

 ian of cultivated fields. 



Lest, in the future, vandals loot this shrine, it was protected by a 

 wire netting set in cement spread on top of the walls. l)ut the contents 

 were left as originally found. South of the mountain-lion shrine, 

 about 20 feet distant, was another enclosure, also a shrine, contain- 

 ing many watcrworn stones, but its idol or guardian animal had dis- 

 appeared. This receptacle was likewise protected by a wire net. 

 Although it had no beast-god image ; several stone idols (fig. 98) 

 were found in the adjacent dump aroinid i'ipc Shrine House — evi- 



