KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 14:7 
knotted cords, the knots of which became bound in the holes and 
caused the strings to break when they were being pulled out. 
The color of the cones is a rich, dark red; this was produced by 
covering their sides and tops (the bases are uncolored) with a thick 
-coat of red ochre, and then washing over this a thin coat of some 
transparent, resinous varnish which has kept the ochre from rub- 
bing off, and has also somewhat toned down its original bright 
shade. 
Dr. Fewkes has kindly examined the above material and tells 
us that he believes the bird to have formed part of an altar equip- 
ment similar to that’ of the Hopi flute altar. The “sunflowers” 
were perhaps attached to the sides of helmet masks like those worn 
by the personators of Hopi Kachinas. As to the function of the 
cones, Dr. Fewkes is in doubt. 
CAVE I CACHE 
The inclusion of this material in the section on ceremonial objects 
is open to question. The careful burial of such a heterogeneous col- 
lection of oddments in so small a vessel and the nature of the objects 
themselves, however, both smack of ceremonialism. The entire con- 
tents of the pot are described together here, rather than under their 
proper headings in the Material Culture section, in order that the 
reader may obtain a clearer idea of the variety and richness of the 
cache. There is also a possibility that the collection may not be a 
ceremonial deposit of the Cliff-dwellers at all, but merely a selection 
of the richer loot taken from the near-by Basket Maker cists by some 
Cliff-dweller, inclosed in a contemporary vessel, and buried for safe 
keeping. The container is, however, surely of Cliff-dweller make (see 
pl. 54, a). It was found, as was described in the narrative (p. 77), 
close below the surface at the rear of the cave. Just under the lid 
lay two flat leather objects, one of them made of three, the other of 
four, layers of dressed deerskin sewed together at the edges (A- 
1847). While they are both so badly decayed that their exact nature 
can not be made out, they appear to have been oval in outline. 
They are about 6 inches long by 3 inches wide. 
Under the leather objects, and bottom up, was a very small black- 
and-white seed jar (pl. 54, 6); its lower side was for some unknown 
reason much disintegrated, the surface had partly scaled off, and on 
removal more fragments came away. This little jar rested on a 
large polished lignite button, and packed about it were three small 
but beautifully woven bags, their mouths closed by draw strings. 
Between two of the bags lay a long strip of dried flesh or sinew folded 
on itself several times. 
The contents of the cache pot had in some way become very much 
decayed, apparently more by a sort of dry rot than by moisture; 
