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one-half inch in diameter. Like the other, it is a plain peeled stick; 
the bore, however, is smaller and leaves more of the original wood. 
The ends are slightly tapered, neatly rounded off, and each is encireled 
with a single narrow line burnt into the wood. The purpose of these 
objects is unknown, but the decorative lines about the ends of the 
smaller example give it a certain resemblance to the specimens next to 
be described. 
Gaming (?) sticks. The six specimens illustrated in plate 84, 25-30, 
are provisionally identified as such. Three of them (28, 29, 30) 
are exactly alike, 34 inches long, nine-sixteenths inch broad; they 
were made by splitting lengths of peeled cottonwood twigs so as to 
leave one flat (28) and one arched side (29, 30); the flat sides have 
been rubbed down smooth, the round sides are unaltered save for the 
removal of the bark and the drawing of a pair of incised lines at each 
end. The other three sticks (25, 26, 27) are plain, round cylinders, 
again made from lengths of peeled branches. Their ends are care- 
fully worked down flat with rounded edges. 
The only two wooden objects recovered from the Sayodneechee 
burial cists are of these same types. One (A-1965) is three-fourths 
inch long by three-eighths inch wide, has one flat and one convex 
side like the three from Cave I; it also shows faint traces of incised 
Fic. 938.—Stick with grooved end. 
markings on the convex surface. The other (A—1964) is a bit of stick 
with the bark on, but with nicely finished ends; its length is 1 inch, 
diameter one-fourth inch. 
Ball and billet (pl. 84, 22, 23). Both specimens illustrated are 
made of cottonwood; the former was once a round ball of excellent 
workmanship, but has lost part of one side; the latter is a short see- 
tion of a branch with one end cut off square, the other slightly 
arched. The ball might perhaps have been used in a kicking game 
hke that of the Pima.* 
Reed whistles (pl. 84, 31-84). These range in length from 4 
inches to 4% inches. They are made from sections of reed, and each 
is provided with a single “ stop,” burned, not cut, into one side.* In 
the two longer examples (33 and 34) the “stop” is placed at a joint 
in the reed; that of 34 is bound about and partly covered by .a wrap- 
ping of sinew and fine fiber. The shaft of 34 is decorated with 
burned-in bands and with longitudinal and scroll-like patterns of 
burned dots. 
1 Russell, 1908, fig. 87. 
2 Hough (1914, p. 127, fig. 328) mentions burning of flute holes in the Tulerosa 
district. : 
