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people since that time, and are now, no doubt, in some hidden erypt 
near the Mishoninovi village. 
There is a shrine of simple character, near the ruins of smaller Awa- 
tobi, which bears evidence of antiquity (figure 258), It consisted, in 
1892, of a circle of small stones in which were two large water-worn 
Fig. 257—Alosaka shrine at Awatobi 
stones and a fragment of petrified wood. There was no evidence that 
it had lately been used. 
On the extreme western point of the mesa, at the very edge of the 
cliff, there was also a simple shrine (figure 259). Judging from its 
general appearance, this, likewise, had not been used in modern times, 
but there were several old prayer-sticks not far away. 
At the foot of the mesa, below the point last mentioned, however, 
there is a shrine (figure 260), the earth of which contained hundreds 
of prayer-sticks, in all stages of decay, while some of them had been 
placed there only a few days before my visit. This shrine, I was told, 
