NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA HAURY AND HARGRAVE 59 



It will be noted that the base of the Pinedale slab is irregular and 

 less carefully finished than the other three edges. It has been sug- 

 gested that this unfinished side was imbedded in the ground to the 

 depth of the black line during its use. This would hold the object in a 

 vertical position so that a fetish such as the plumed serpent could be 

 drawn back and forth through the opening with facility as in the 

 recorded ceremony. 



Relatively few painted slabs of this nature have been recovered, 

 and those nearly all from the ruins in the Silver Creek drainage or its 

 environs. Fewkes found an excellent specimen of rectangular form in 

 a grave at the Chevlon ruin/ and Mr. Whipple at Showlow uncovered 

 three or four well-made slabs in living rooms in his ruin. These are 

 squared at the base and rounded at the upper end. Fewkes also notes 

 the presence of one in a grave at Sikyatki/ which is, as far as we 

 know, their northernmost occurrence. None other, however, has been 

 recorded with the large opening. 



A section of a charred timber found near the Pinedale tablet gave 

 an unmistakable cutting date of A. D. 1286, which, with other speci- 

 mens of comparable age from the same room, yields the approximate 

 building date of the room. Consequently, the slab was discarded at a 

 somewhat later time. 



OBJECTS OF BONE 



Awls. — Representative specimens are shown in figure 16, a. h, c. 

 The first one is fashioned from the proximal end of an ulna, probably 

 of the antelope, and f is a similar bone from some other animal. 



Bodkins ( ?). — In his work at Chavez Pass ruin, Fewkes ' recovered 

 13 bone implements which he termed bodkins. One complete and one 

 fragmentary specimen were found by us (fig. 16, c/and c) at Pinedale. 

 These and one figured from Chavez Pass by Fewkes display such 

 similar characteristics that they must represent a type. They seem 

 always to be made of about 6-inch sections of the metatarsal bones of 

 the deer or antelope, including the joint. The maximum diameter of c 

 is I inch. The hollow of the bone is exposed for 2 inches below the 

 blunt point and from there to the distal end the implement is highly 

 polished. The articular faces of the joint were removed in order to 

 maintain a more uniform diameter. Hodge* pictures one from 



' Fewkes, J. W., 1904, pp. 104-5, pl- XLVI. 



^ Ibid., p. 162. 



' Ibid., p. 94. 



* Hodge, F. W., 1920, pl. XX, a. 



