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anthropological exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. This was found 
in San Juan county, Utah, not far from the Colorado river.* This 
specimen is better preserved than that here figured, but the decoration 
is practically identical; so near, in fact, that the two might have been 
made by the same woman. 
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS 
The stone implements (pl. 17, c) consist of axes, pounding stones,? 
and hatchets. On one of the roofs at Kitsiel there was picked up a 
curved stick ¢ identical with those placed by the Walpi Snake priests 
about the sand-painting of their altar. A good specimen of a plant- 
ing stick and a rod formerly used as a spindle were found near by; 
the latter is a perforated disk made of horn. <A flute identical with 
those used at the present day by Flute priests at Walpi was found 
at Betatakin, thus tending to support the legend that the Flute clan 
once lived at the latter pueblo. 
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 
The route chosen by the author for visiting the ruins of the Navaho 
National Monument is via Flagstaff and Tuba, the distance being not. 
far from 200 miles to Marsh pass and 10 miles beyond to the largest 
cliff-dwellings. Although the wagon road is long, requiring a journey 
of at least five days, it may be traversed with carriage or buckboard, 
the sandy stretch between Tuba and Red Lake being the most difficult. 
The trail from Marsh pass to the great cliff-dwellings, although now 
passable only on horseback, could be made into a wagon road at 
small expense. 7 
The nature of the cliffs in which the ruins of the Navaho Monument 
are situated favored the construction of cliff-dwellings rather than of 
open pueblos in this region. These cliffs are full of caverns, large 
and small, presenting much the same condition as the cliffs of the red 
sandstone elsewhere in the Southwest, as the Mesa Verde, Canyon de 
Chelly, the Red Rocks south of Flagstaff, and other sections where 
caverns abound. Fragments of fallen rocks present good plane sur- 
faces for walls of masonry, and there is abundant clay for plastering. 
Trees suitable for rafters and beams are not wanting. In short, all 
conditions are favorable for stone and adobe houses in the cliffs. The 
neighboring Sethlagini mesa is of different geological formation; in it 
are no caverns, the mesa top is broad, and ruins thereon are necessarily 
a The finder was Mr. E. B. Wallace. This specimen was owned at one time by Mr. J. T. Zeller, an 
architect of St. Louis. The writer has been informed that Mr. Zeller sold the cradle and that it is now 
in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. 
b’ A common feature of stone mauls is a raised ferrule above and one below the groove to which the 
handle is attached. 
¢ These sticks, or ‘‘crooks” (gnela), found on the Antelope altar in the Walpi Snake ceremony are reported 
to have been brought to Walpi from Tokénabi. 
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