KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 189 
Paints 
In the cache with a skeleton in Cist B, Sayodneechee, there was a 
small lump of red ochre (A-1934). At the bottom of the same cist 
was a mass composed of yellow ochrous sandstone (A-1970) that 
had been ground, wet, and made into a flat cake (see p. 30 and pl. 9). 
Both of these finds may be presumed to represent the raw colors 
employed in painting such objects as the butts of the atlatl darts, 
the problematical bark contrivance (pl. 85, a), the prepared scalp 
(pl. 87 a), ete. White, seen on the scalp and on the bark object, is 
not present in its raw state in our collection. 
Bone 
Awls were not recovered in that abundance which the amount of 
basketry present in the caves would lead one to expect. We have but 
two specimens, both from Cave I; these are particularly interesting 
because of the string and string-and-fur wrappings which encircle 
them and provide a firm grip for the hand (pl. 85, ¢). It is probable 
that many bone implements were once so equipped, but these are, so 
far as we know, the only examples that have been preserved in their 
original condition. Somewhat awl-like, but perhaps designed for 
other purposes, are the three carefully made and sharp-pointed 
little instruments shown in plate 86, e. 
Bone “ whistles” were found, one in each of the caches with skele- 
tons in the Sayodneechee cave (pl. 86, a, 6). They are short tubes, 
cut from hollow bird bones, nicely finished on the ends, and provided 
with single “stops.” Above and below the “stop” of one of them 
can be seen faint traces of ligatures. 
Bone tubes, probably for beads, are figured with the “ whistles ”’ 
(pl. 86, ¢, d) ; their ends are cut off rather roughly, but their surfaces 
are highly polished as if by long use. The pair of larger tubes 
illustrated in plate 86, 7, are of probable but not of certain Basket 
Maker origin, having come from a cist in Sunflower Cave (No. 4, 
see p. 96); their length is 74 inches, and each one of them is deco- 
rated at its heavier end by an encircling incised line and row of 
dots. 
Bone dice (?). A set of small bone objects (pl. 86, 7) was con- 
tained in a pouch of thin skin found in the general digging in 
Cave I. The bag was sewed up at one side and tied at the neck 
with fiber string. The set of “dice” consists of eight lenticular 
pieces eleven-sixteenths inch long and one-fourth inch wide. and 
three discoidal ones one-fourth inch in diameter; all have one flat 
and one rounded surface. The circular examples have their flat 
sides heavily coated with pitch; their convex sides are clear ex- 
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