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were familiar with native cotton and had also fabrics made of other 
vegetable fibers.1 They likewise wove the hair of certain animals 
into articles of wearing apparel. Of all varieties of fiber used in 
weaving the most abundant and most readily obtained was that of.- 
the agave, which grows luxuriantly everywhere in southern Arizona 
deserts. A combination of this fiber with that of cotton was com- 
mon, and the manufacture of feather garments was not unknown. 
A small skeleton found in one of the rooms was wrapped in a 
garment of this kind and in another room similar wrappings were 
found around a small bowl containing green pigment. There were 
unearthed also fragments of a belt decorated with rectangular and 
zigzag patterns, similar to designs on fabrics 
discovered among cliff-dwellings in northern 
Arizona; one end of this belt was embroidered. 
Worthy of mention also is a lace-like fabric, 
a large piece of which was unearthed in the 
refuse that formerly almost filled one of the 
rooms just east of Casa Grande. On ac- 
count of the great heat, thick clothing was not made by the people 
of this community. 
Fic. 51. Copper bells. 
COPPER BELLS 
The inhabitants of Casa Grande appear to have been ignorant of all 
metals except float copper, a specimen of which was found in the 
excavations (pl. 67, f). Two copper bells (fig. 51) were picked up on 
the surface of the ground. These bells do not differ in shape or size 
from those found in ruins along the Little Colorado and elsewhere in 
the Southwest and may have been obtained in trade from Mexico, 
although there is no evidence that they were not made by the Casa 
Grande people. 
PICTOGRAPHS 
Casa Grande is situated in a plain and in the immediate neigh- 
borhood there are no outcroppings of rocks available for pictographs, 
although it is probable that certain pictures on rocks distant about a 
mile date back to the time when Casa Grande was inhabited. As 
a rule, these pictographs are pecked into the rock, paintings, if any, 
having been washed or worn away. The largest cluster of picto- 
graphs lies in the outeropping lava on the north side of the Gila, 
opposite the settlement of Pima, called Blackwater. 
There are also many pictographs on the “pictured rocks’ a few 
miles east of Florence, and still others in the Casa Grande Mountain 
1 Many of the fragments of cloth found were charred, and on that account some of the best specimens 
fell to pieces when handled. 
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