KEWKES] 



ANTIQUITIES OP MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK 



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Most of the needles, bodkins, and awls are made of bones of birds 

 or small animals. These were apparently rubbed down and pointed 



Fig. 33. Bone implement. 



on stone implements or on the sides of the cliff, where grooves are 

 often found (fig. 33). 



Fig. 34. Bone scraper. 



Several fine bone scrapers (figs. 34, 35) were dug out of the 

 debris covering the floors of the rooms. These are beveled to a sharp 

 edge at one end, the trochanter of the bone serving as a handle. 



Fig. 35. Bone scraper. 



FETISH 



Only one fetish, in the form of a human being was obtained at 

 Spruce-tree House, this being found in the debris near the floor of 

 kiva G. So far as the objects from Mesa Verde ruins have been 

 figured or described, this is the first record of the finding of a fetish 

 of human shape in any of these ruins. Moreover, such a fetish is 

 a rarity in cliff-house ruins elsewhere in the Southwest, a fact which 

 imparts to this specimen more than usual interest. 



LIGNITE GORGET 



In the author's account of his excavations in ruins in the Little 

 Colorado valley there was figured a large fragment of a disk made of 

 cannel coal or lignite. This disk is convex on one side and plain 

 on the side opposite, the latter having an eyelet, or two holes for 

 suspension. A lignite gorget, similar for the most part to the above- 

 mentioned specimen, but difl'ering therefrom in having the eyelet in 



