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dry, alkaline bono-phosphate dust edible corn is not ver}^ common^ 



although now and then occurs a 

 cob with attached seeds. The corn 

 of Clitr Palace, already figured by 

 Xordcnski()ld, resembles that still 

 cultivated by some of the Hopi. 



Textiles 



The Cliff Palace people manu- 

 factured fairly good cloth, the com- 

 ponent cords or strings being of 

 two or three strands and well 

 twisted. So finely made and dura- 

 ble are some of these cords that 

 they might be mistaken for white 

 men's work; some of them, how- 

 ever, are very coarse, and are tied 

 in hanks. Among varieties of cords. 

 ma}^ be mentioned those wound 

 with feathers, from which textiles, 

 ordinarily called " feather cloth.'' 

 was made. Yucca and cotton were 

 emploj'ed in the manufacture of 

 almost all kinds of fabrics. A few 

 fragments of netting were found. 



The finest cloth was manufac- 

 tured from cotton, a good specimen 

 of which, showing a pattern woven 

 in different colors, is contained in 

 the collection. 



Several woven belts, and also a 

 head-band similar to that figured 

 in the report on Spruce-tree House, 

 were uncovered b}^ the excavations. 



The largest fragment of cloth 

 was taken out of the crematory, or 

 inclosure containing the calcined 

 human bones, at the northern end 

 of the larger refuse heap. It ap- 

 pears to have been a portion of a 

 bag. or possibly of a head cover- 

 ing, but it is so fragmentary that 

 l)attern is woven in darker colored 



Fig. 4. — Woven forehead hand. 



its true use is unknown. The 



