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Chipped implements. — Relatively few chipped stone objects were 

 recovered. Projectile points are both plain and tanged (see fig. 13 

 for representative specimens from Pinedale), and a few have serrated 

 edges. Knives and scrapers of chert and obsidian flakes show com- 

 paratively little secondary chipping. Figure i, plate 6, figure i, is a 

 chert knife on which the cutting edge has been slightly retouched. 



The large implement shown in plate 6, figure i, j, is lanceolate in 

 shape, 7I inches long and 3^ inches wide. It is crudely chipped from a 

 spall struck from a lava block. Near the center of the object on each 

 edge, are shallow notches which probably aided in hafting it to a 

 handle. 



Obsidian cache. — From the northwest corner of room i, test 15, was 

 taken a cache of 17 obsidian nodules which were probably intended to 

 supply the material for projectile points. The nodules vary from 

 f to i^ inches in diameter. They are somewhat angular and covered 

 with a thin veneer of opalitic substance. 



OBJECTS OF BONE AND HORN 



Awls. — Specimens a, b, c, and d, figure 4, are representative of the 

 bone awls from Showlow ruin. Awls a and d were split from large 

 bones after longitudinal groovings had been made and then trimmed 

 down, while b and c were formed of natural bones with little modi- 

 fication. Incising was noted on several awls, probably representing 

 crude attempts at decoration. 



Dagger (?). — A large broken implement (fig. 4, e) is tentatively 

 identified as a dagger. The fragment shown is 6 inches long with an 

 inch or more broken from each end. A comparison of its size with 

 normal awls makes it quite evident that it was intended to be used in 

 some other way, the most logical use being that of a dagger. In 

 his excavations at Turkey Hill Pueblo, near Flagstaff, Dr. Byron 

 Cummings recovered excellent examples of these. In one instance 

 several were found at the waist of a burial as though they had been 

 suspended from or tucked beneath a girdle. Hodge ' also pictures 

 quite similar implements from Hawikuh, although he lists them as 

 awls. 



Incised bone. — Figure 4, / is a section of a mammal leg bone 7 inches 

 long and i inch in diameter from which a portion has been severed 

 by a circumambient incision. Below the cut end is another scoring 

 made in preparation for the removal of a short section. 



'Hodge, F. W., 1920, pis. 10, 11, 12. 



