728 EXPEDITION TO ARIZONA IN 1895 (ETH. ANN. 17 
As I have shown elsewhere, the human hand is used as a decorative 
element in the ornamentation of the interior of several food bowls. It 
is likewise in one instance chosen to adorn the exterior. It is the only 
part of the human limbs thus used. Figure 354 shows the hand with 
marks on the palm probably intended to represent the lines which are 
Fie. 354 Human hand 
used in the measurement of the length of pahos or prayer-sticks. From 
between the index and the middle finger rises a line which recalls that 
spoken of in the account of the hand on the interior of the food bowl 
shown in plate CXXXVIL. 
Fic. 355—Animal paw, limb, and triangle 
The limb of an animal with a paw, or possibly a human arm and hand, 
appears as a decoration on the outside of another food bowl, where it is 
combined with the ever-constant stepped figure, as shown in figure 355, 
PIGMENTS 
The ancient Sikyatki people were accustomed to deposit in their 
mortuary vessels fragments of minerals or ground oxides and carbon- 
ates, of different colors, used as paints. It thus appears evident that 
these substances were highly prized in ancient as in modern times, and 
it may be mentioned that the present native priests regard the pigments 
found in the graves as so particularly efficacious in coloring their cere- 
monial paraphernalia that they begged me to give them fragments for 
that purpose. The green color, which was the most common, is an 
impure carbonate of copper, the same as that with which pahos are 
painted for ceremonial use today. Several shallow, saucer-like vessels 
contained yellow ocher, and others sesquioxide of iron, which afforded 
both the ancients and the moderns the red pigment called cuta, an 
especial favorite of the warrior societies. The inner surface of some of 
the bowls is stained with the pigments which they had formerly con- 
tained, and it was not uncommon to find several small paint pots 
deposited in a single grave. The white used was an impure kaolin, 
