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ciscan Fathers’ “ Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language,” 
page 475, and described as owl bugaboos to subdue insubordinate chil- 
dren. Whether or not the present examples, which are undoubtedly 
ancient, had the same use, we can not tell. 
“ SUNFLOWER CACHE:”’ 
The finding of this extraordinary collection of what we must sup- 
pose to have been ceremonial paraphernalia is described on page 94. 
The fact that it was contained in a vessel of 
normal Cliff-house corrugated ware makes it 
reasonably safe to assign it to that culture. 
The deposit consists of a wooden bird, 21 
yellow and 5 white wooden sunflowers, 2 leather 
sunflowers, and 25 wooden cones. 
The Bird (pls. 60, 61) is made of cottonwood 
and is 92 inches long. The breast, belly, back, 
neck, and throat are painted yellow; the tail, 
wings, crown, and cheeks are hight cobalt blue 
with black edgings; each wing bears 10 yellow 
dots arranged in 2 rows of 5 each. The fore- \ 
head isa dull salmon pink. Thereisa small hole — Fre. 65.—Ceremonial 
in the head, which has cemented into it with iy ¢ 
pifion gum a fragment of feather quill. This quill once protruded, 
butt-end out, to simulate, presumably, the beak of the bird. On either 
side of the belly is a hole three-sixteenths inch in diameter; the two 
run inward and shghtly upward, meeting at a very obtuse angle in the 
middle of the body. If these holes were intended as sockets for legs, 
the latter would have protruded in a rather unnatural attitude. In 
the very similar, though unpainted, birds found by Cummings in the 
Monument country* the leg holes are placed in the same way. The 
present specimen is of very graceful proportions and of perfect work- 
manship. It was made, or at least finished, entirely by rubbing, prob- 
ably with coarse sandstone; nowhere on it, or on the other objects 
about to be described, is there the least sign of breaking, cutting, or 
whittling. 
The Wooden Sunflowers number 26, of which 21 are yellow and 
5 white. The largest one is 67% inches in diameter across the petals, 
the smallest 3 inches. There is an almost perfect gradation between 
the two extremes, so that the specimens do not fall into size groups. 
All are made as follows: The body (fig. 66) is a section of a 
small round branch, apparently cottonwood, cut almost square across 
the bottom, more or less rounded on the top; a small hole perforates 
it vertically through the center. Just below the top the body is 
ringed by a narrow groove, cut inward and downward; this groove 
11915, fig. 55. 
90521°—19—Bull. 65——10 
