KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA 191 
The hair is arranged as follows: a “ part” 1 inch wide, from which 
the hair has been clipped, runs up to a large semilunar tonsure at 
the crown. The brow tresses on either side are gathered together 
in “bobs ” that fall in front of or over the ears and are tied up with 
wrappings of apocynum (7?) string. The long hair from just 
behind the tonsure is braided into a thin plait, whose lower end is 
doubled back on itself and bound with hair string. The remainder 
of the back hair is made into a single short fat “bob,” string- 
wrapped, that falls to the nape of the neck. Plate 88, a, 6, are photo- 
graphs of a restoration based on this specimen. 
The face has been colored rather elaborately: the “part” and 
tonsure are painted with a pasty, greenish-white pigment; up the 
center of the “part” and across the tonsure runs a narrow streak 
of yellow. Just under the forehead seam there is a thin, horizontal 
band of red. From this to a line drawn across the face half an inch 
below the eyes is a zone of white. A band left in the natural color 
of the skin extends from here to just below the nostrils, whence 
to the bottom the white paint is continuous, except for a broad 
median band of red running downward from the mouth seam. 
Rove through two small holes in the tonsure is a narrow thong 
for suspension. In this part of the scalp there is a short rent care- 
fully sewed up, probably a wound or a cut made in skinning. 
This interesting specimen seems to have been prepared and used 
as a trophy. The dressing of the hair was probably done after the 
skin had been cured; its arrangement is peculiar and, so far as we 
know, is not similar to any known style used in recent times in the 
Plateau. Partial head shaving and the long, braided scalp lock are 
suggestive of Plains coiffures. The head was presumably that of an 
enemy, though there is no way of telling whether it was an enemy 
of the same or of a different stock. It may be mentioned, however, 
that in what are apparently Basket Maker pictographs in the “ Monu- 
ments” (fig. 100) and in Grand Gulch, some of the figures are 
represented as wearing “side-bobs” very like those of the present 
specimen. As to the clipping or tonsuring of the hair nothing 
definite can be said. It may have been done post-mortem in the prep- 
aration of the trophy. The forehead of the “mummy” with which 
it was found, however, shows distinct signs of clipping, the hair 
having been removed forward of a line drawn over the crown of 
the head from ear to ear. Montgomery also states? that a “ mummy ” 
from the Grand Gulch district (which, from the description of its 
grave and the nature of the objects found with it, we take to be 
Basket Maker) had “the hair closely cut from the front half of the 
head, thus leaving the back hair only.” If hair cutting was a 
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