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cept for a single small, pitch-filled hollow (or possibly perforation) 
in the center. The flat sides of the long pieces are also coated 
with pitch, through which show transverse marks or scorings; 
one has two narrow lines incised across the center of its convex 
side. 
A single lenticular “die,” identical with the above, was found 
in the neighborhood of Cist I in this cave (A-1842); another 
(A-1306) in a small empty cave in the “ Monuments.” In the 
American Museum there is a larger, though otherwise similar 
specimen, from Pueblo Bonito; Culin? describes others from the 
vicinity of Tanner’s Spring, Arizona. Small circular “ dice” found 
in Tulerosa Cave are figured by Hough,’ and these are said to be 
coated on one side with “ gray mud.” 
The identification of these objects as dice is open to question. 
The heavy pitching and the careless scoring of the flat sides makes 
it seem possible that they were used as inlays, in which case the 
pitch would have served as an adhesive and the scorings have 
acted to give it a firmer hold on the smooth bone. 
SHELL. 
The only use recorded for this material is in the making of 
beads and pendants. 
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS 
“ scaLp ” 
This specimen was found under the shoulders of the “mummy ” 
in Cist 16, Cave I (pl. 87, a, 6). It is the entire head skin of an 
adult, with the hair carefully dressed. In its preparation the scalp 
proper, including the ears, was removed from the skull in one piece; 
the face to the mouth in another; and the chin with the lower 
cheeks in a third. After drying or curing, the three sections were 
sewed together again, one seam running across the forehead and one 
down each side in front of the ears; the horizontal seam which 
joins the upper and lower face pieces crosses at the region of the 
mouth, but the skin along this sewing has been so trimmed, probably 
in order to insure a straight seam, that no sign of the lips remains. 
The eyes and nose, though shriveled, are plainly recognizable; the 
eyebrow and eyelash hairs are still in position. Although thorough 
examination under the brittle “ side-bobs ” of hair is impossible, one 
can make out the shrunken ears; through the lobe of each there runs 
a bit of yucea string, the attachment cords presumably for pendants 
which have now disappeared. 
11907, p. 48, fig, 7, 21914, p, 128, pl, 25, 
