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showed me the concretion he carried, and it was the same sort of a 
thing as was found in the ruin. 
Two beautiful specimens of fluorite, stained a delicate purple, 
were used as bases for prayer plumes. (Pl. 56, B.) They have holes 
at the top for the placing of the ‘‘ breath feathers” and have been 
smoothed or ground down to a very good polish on the sides. One 
of the handsomest bits of mineral in the collection is a selenite crystal 
(pl. 56, D) which is stained a beautiful soft green. This was also 
a fetish of some kind and may have been carried in a fetish bag. 
It is unusual to find well-made fetishes of animals and birds on 
the Jemez Plateau. The two specimens (pl. 56, EF, F) were found 
together in a room with some other ceremonial things. / was in- 
tended to represent a bird and is made of pottery. Fis a piece of 
stone which shows that some work has been done on it and probably 
represented an animal, possibly a bear. The bear fetish is the most 
popular animal fetish in use to-day on the Rio Grande. The bit of 
selenite crystal (pl. 56, G) has been carried so long that the facets are 
partly worn away and the two ends nicely smoothed. 
A piece of pottery with saw-tooth edges and with the beginning 
of a drilled hole on one side of it is strongly suggestive of the fetish 
now used by the Navajo and called by them ‘‘Spider woman.”’ The 
saw-tooth edge of this piece of pottery would not be practical for 
sawing and the teeth are not long enough to permit of its being used 
asacomb. (PI. 56, H.) 
Ceremonial paint sticks are very rare and the specimen shown 
(pl. 56, 7) is an unusually fine specimen. The material is a burnt 
senna mixed with some sort of grease to hold it together. It is nicely 
polished and shaped. : 
Two of the most interesting fetishes found in the ruin are made of 
black earth and grease. The winter cacique at Santa Clara said that 
they were used in some of the ceremonies of the Koshare and that 
there ought to be four in the set. He said that the material of which 
they are made is the same as that of the ‘‘maposhune”’ (meaning 
unknown) or black ceremonial paint which is used by the male dancers. 
These fetishes have holes in the top for the placing of the prayer 
feathers. From what I could gather they are very sacred and caused 
much talk when they were shown to a few men in Santa Clara. 
(Pl. 56, J.) 
Gypsum is used to a large extent in the making of fetishes, even 
to-day, and several nondescript pieces of this material were found in 
the ruin. What they were originally intended for it is impossible to 
say now, but that they were once carved into some form is still 
apparent. One of these is shown in Plate 56, K. 
By far the most interesting fetish found is the one marked ZL, Plate 
56. This is a maternity fetish and as such it was used by the wife 
