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Stick with grooved end (fig. 93). A carefully worked piece of 
twig with a small groove encircling one end. In the American 
Museum collection from Grand Gulch are a number of sticks of this 
nature, tied together in pairs with strings which set into the grooves; 
we can hazard no guess as to their use. Length 6% inches. 
Problematical bark object (pl. 85, 6). This specimen is 7 inches 
long, 5 inches wide, and seven-eighths inch thick. It is made from a 
piece of yellow-pine (?) bark and in shape very roughly resembles a 
shovel blade. The flat surfaces show no marks of work or wear, but 
the edges and ends appear to have been rubbed down with some 
rough implement, probably a piece of coarse sandstone. 
Painted bark object (pl. 85, a). This is a fragment broken from 
some larger specimen, the nature of which is not obvious. It con- 
sists of a piece of the bark of a deciduous tree, 3} inches wide, bent 
in a loop over a twig 104 inches long. The loop is held together by 
several turns of yucca string, which also engage the twig and prevent 
it from slipping out. One surface of the bark is decorated with 
zigzag vertical lines, alternating red and white; they seem to have 
been made by a finger dipped in wet paint. 
STonE? 
Chipped drills and scrapers, rubbing stones, hammerstones, celts, 
and axes; none of these types are represented in our collection. 
Whether or not this is of any significance we can hardly judge, our 
excavations in Basket Maker sites being as yet too limited; for data 
on this subject we cannot safely draw on other Basket Maker collec- 
tions such as those in the American Museum and the Field Museum, 
for until the catalogues of those collections have been more thor- 
oughly collated than is at present possible one cannot be certain 
which objects were taken from cliff-dwellings and which from Basket 
Maker caves. <A few large chipped blades, perhaps knives, are shown 
in figure 90. 
Flat pebbles, six in number (A-1930), averaging 2 inches in di- 
ameter by three-eighths inch thick, were found in a little cache with 
a skeleton in Cist B, Sayodneechee. They are apparently of natural 
shape, and show no wear of any kind nor any traces of paint. 
Pipes of stone were found at Sayodneechee (two examples), and in 
Cave I (one example). One of the Sayodneéchee pipes is of very 
soft, red sandstone and is in fragmentary condition (A-1911). The 
shape is very squat and the walls thick; what is left of the bow] is 
lined with a heavy “crust” deposited by the smoke. The stem hole, 
very small in proportion to the size of the bowl, holds the rotted 
remains of a wooden mouthpiece. The other Sayodneechee pipe 
1For chipped points and atlatl stones see under atlatl (p. 178); for beads and 
pendants pp. 162-164. 
