NO. 10 



ARCHKOLOGICAL COLLECTION FEWKES 



Other ruins on the Little Colorado, but two rare broken specimens 

 are worthy of special attention. They are made of polished bone, 

 decorated with superficial incised ornamentation clearly indicated 

 in the accompanying figures (pi. 8, a, b). 



The objects, as stated in the catalogue, lay on or near a human 

 cranium, a position indicating that they were hair decorations, and 

 they are probably the same as the so-called herunka, or feathered 

 head ornament, worn on the crown of the head by warriors or by 

 the personators of the Little War God. Similar objects still survive 

 in pueblo ceremonies. One of these (pi. 8, c), collected by the 



Fig. 3- — War God and complemental female idol on the Oraibi Snake Altar. 

 a, God of War wearing netted cap and bone hair ornament. 



author at Zuni in 1890, is shown in his accoimt of "A Few Sum- 

 mer Ceremonies at Tusayan." The bone shaft by which this was 

 attached in the hair was decorated with bird feathers and a frag- 

 ment of abalone shell. A similar hair ornament is attached to the 

 cap of an idol of the Little War God on the Oraibi Snake Altar, as 

 shown in figiu'e 3. 



SHELL BRACELETS 



Shell bracelets, armlets, and finger rings made of Pectiniculus and 

 other marine shells were very common in graves at Homolobi, Chev- 



