Fuwkus] MINOR ANTIQUITIES Si 
Miscellaneous stones —Several fragments of obsidian and a few 
flint flakes, water-worn pebbles, squared pieces of lava of unknown 
use, baking stones, an object shaped like a whetstone, and various non- 
descript objects (pl. 67, b, d) are contained in the collection. A single 
specimen of knife or projectile point (fig. 33) was found in the ruins. 
Many specimens of fossil wood were taken from one of the shrines, 
and concretions were uncovered from various places in the compounds. 
Among other problematic specimens are elongate or cubical objects 
of coarse sandstone, a hemispherical object of pumice, and a small 
pointed stone used perhaps as a drill. 
Fragments of artificially worked mica, asbestos, galena, and chal- 
cedony are also in the collection from Casa Grande. Like the ancient 
people who inhabited the northern pueblos, those of the south prized 
petrified wood, obsidian, any stone of grotesque shape, fossils, and 
water-worn pebbles. Many of these specimens must have been 
brought a considerable distance, as they are different from stones 
found in the immediate vicinity. 
Disks and balls.—Stone disks (pls. 68; 69, d)and balls(pl. 69, a, c, and 
fig. 34) of various sizes were found in consider- 
able numbers. These were artificially worked 
and are supposed to have belonged to gaming 
paraphernalia, but they may have been used as 
weapons. In the latter case,it may besupposed 
they were fastened to handles with thongs of 
skin. These balls should not be confounded 
with the small smooth pebbles used for polish- 
ing pottery or with ceremonial stones used in 
making medicine. There are several stones 
similar to those used in the Hopi foot race, 
“kicking the stone,”’ in the collection. 
Beads and pendants.—Several stone beads Me. 33. Knife or projectile 
and pendants (figs. 35-38) of various sizes and point. 
shapes are contained in the collection. Some are spherical, many 
are perforated cylinders, while others consist of fragments of tur- 
quoise perforated for use as ear or neck ornaments. 
A piece of carved red jasper (fig. 37), evidently an ornament, may 
be appropriately mentioned in this place. Fragments of mica were 
probably used for a similar purpose. Little squares of turquoise 
show evidences of having once been portions of mosaic, like the mosaic 
frog from Chaves Pass, figured elsewhere.t Fig. 38 is a tooth-shaped 
stone ornament. 
Shovels and hoes.—There is a number of flat implements of slate 
(pls. 70, 71), sharp on one edge and blunt on the opposite, identified 
1 Twenty-second Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pl. XLiv. 
