FEWKKs) BONE IMPLKMENTS FROM LITTLE COLORADO RUINS 



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Fig. 



. Bone tube from Homolobi niiimber 

 158898). 



Ixmt the neck of one of the 



Five specimens of small half-tul)es showed evidence of having 

 been attached in pairs, as the niarlvitij;: of the binding string on the 

 bone is still visible. These were probably wliistles, the noise being 

 made by a thin edge. 



There are several bone tubes which resemble "bone implements" 

 fouiKl l)y Xordenski(>ld in the cliff liouses of the Mesa Verde, where 

 tliey are considered " l)eads m;ide of the humerus of a large bird, prob- 

 ably the turkey."" Possibly 

 tlie tubes from Chaves pass may 

 likewise be l)eads, wliich, liow- 

 ever, is not the case wi li tlie 

 Mesa Verde specimens. In the 

 account of the excavations at 

 Sikyatki similar bone beads, fotmd 

 skeletons, are mentioned. 



Sixteen of these bone tuln'-lilvc objects were secured at Homolobi, 

 three at Chaves pass, and one at Chevlon. 



In addition to the common forms of implements already described, 

 many other specimens were obtained. Some of these were too frag- 



mejitary to make possiljle 

 an identification of their 

 former uses. Of these mis- 

 cellaneous bone imple- 

 ments, eighteen complete 

 specimens and several 

 fragments were secured 

 from the ruins at Homo- 

 lobi. A very few objects were found at Chaves pass and Chevlon. 



The specimen shown in figure 57 is one of the most interesting 

 bone objects in the collection. It is made from a deer or antelope 

 leg bone, is flat on one side and I'ounded on the opposite, and tapers 

 to a sharp edge at one extremity. It was aftirmed by one of the work- 

 men employed by the author that tliis is the shaft of one of the sticks 

 used bv the stick swallowers in their ceremonies. 



Fig. 5V 



Stick used by stick swallower, from Chevlon 

 I number 1.5.W6). 



Turtle Carapaces 



Near one of the skeletons in the cemetery at Chevlon were found 

 two circular objects made of the carapace of a turtle l)elonging to the 

 genus Chrysemeis, but not the indigenous species. One of these was 

 perforated (see figure 58) and tlie other was not, but when found both 

 were in four fragments — not broken, but having fallen apart at the 

 sutures. Tlie faces were ground smooth and the Avhole form had 

 been considerably changed. These disks may have been spindle 

 whorls. 



"The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Stockholm, 18!S, pi. xi., fig. 22. 



