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stones with a facet worn at one pole as if used for the same or a similar 
purpose (plate CLXXI, b,c). A few stone axes and hatchets were also 
taken from the graves; most of these are rude specimens of stone 
working, although one of them can hardly be excelled in any other col- 
lection. Many arrowpoints were found, but these are in no respect _ 
peculiar. They are made of many different kinds of stone, but those 
of obsidian are the most numerous. They were generally found in 
numbers, sometimes in bowls. Evidently they had not been attached 
to shafts when buried, for no sign of the reeds remained. Arrowheads 
sewed into a bandoleer are still worn as insignia of rank by warriors, 
and it is probable that such was also true in the past, so that on inter- 
ment these arrowpoints might have been placed in the mortuary basin 
deposited by the side of the warrior, as indicative of his standing or . 
rank, and the bandoleer or leather strap to which they were attached 
decayed during its long burial in the earth. Spearpoints of much 
coarser make and larger in size than the arrowheads were also found 
in the graves, and a rare knife, made of chalcedony, showed that the 
ancient, like the modern Hopi, prized a sharp cutting instrument. 
Among the many large stones picked up on the mounds of Sikyatki 
there was one the use of which has long puzzled me. This is a rough 
stone, not worked save in an equatorial groove. The object is too heavy 
to have been carried about, except with the utmost difficulty, and the 
probability of the former existence of a handle is out of the question. 
It has been suggested that this and similar but larger grooved stones 
might have been used as tethers for some domesticated animal, as the 
eagle or the turkey, which is about the only explanation I can suggest. 
Both of these creatures, and (if we may trust early accounts) a quad- 
ruped about the size of a dog, were domesticated by the ancient Pueblo 
people, but I have found no survival of tethering in use to-day. Eagles, 
however, are tied by the legs and not confined in corrals as at Zuni, 
while sheep are kept in stone inclosures. It is probable that this latter 
custom came with the introduction of sheep, and that these stones were 
weights to which the Sikyatki people tied by the legs the eagles and 
turkeys, the feathers of which play an important part in their sacred 
observances. 
Certain small rectangular slabs of stone have been found, with a 
groove extending across one surface diagonally from one angle to 
another (plate CLXxIx, a, ).) These are generally called arrowshaft pol- 
ishers, and were used to rub down the surface of arrowshafts or prayer- 
sticks. Several of these polishers were taken from Sikyatki graves, 
and one or two were of such regular form that considerable care must 
have been used in their manufacture. A specimen from Awatobi is 
decorated with a bow and an arrow scratched on one side, aud one 
of dark basaltic rock evidently came from a distance. A number of 
metates and mullers were found in the graves at Sikyatki. One of the 
best of the latter is shown in plate CLxx. These stones are of different 
