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The ijalios from C'liaves pass were painted bright blue, the pigment 

 used being azurite. These had a single stick as long as the arm, 

 between a half inch and an inch In diameter, and were apparently 

 laid by the side of the body when buried, in some instances resting 

 on the left arm. So thoroughly decayed, however, was the wood of 

 which they were made that it was diflicult to take an unbroken speci- 

 men from the earth. 



Aji unusual form of iiaho was found in a grave at Chaves pass. 

 It consisted of a wooden disk with a short handle, and was not unlike 

 a hand mirror. The whole object was painted green, witli an obscure 

 figure in red on one face. The disk was perforated in the middle, 

 and there were markings or imi5ressions of feathers on the green jiig- 

 ment with which it was painted. In one of the gravies a spheroidal 

 wooden object was found, with daubs of pigment upon it, which 

 recalls the squash pahos found in the Awatobi shrine, and has like- 

 nesses to the modern prayer eagle eggs made of wood, such as can be 

 found iu a shrine at Tiirkinobi, near Walpi. 



The pahos from Homolobi and- Chevlon are small, and as a rule 

 are painted green with copper carbonate. Thej- were neither as finely 

 made nor as complicated as those of Sikyatki, where the best ancient 

 prayer-sticks yet found have been obtained. In the Chaves pass 

 graves the prayer-stick was very long and painted blue with azui-ite 

 or green with carbonate of copper. 



The most interesting and exceptional form of prayer-stick collected 

 in 1891) Avas that obtained at Chevlon. It was disk-like in f(n-m, had 

 an attachment at one end or on the rim, and was painted green and 

 decorated with red designs. The author has found no similar prayer- 

 stick in iise in any Hopi ceremonial which he has witnessed. 



Bow AND Arrows 



Almost a complete bow and several fragments of arrows or reeds 

 were dug out of a grave at the Chevlon ruin. These were taken from 

 the same place as the gaming reeds about to be mentioned. Tlie 

 association of gaming implements and the weapons of a warrior in tlie 

 same gi-ave is highly suggestive. 



Gaming Canes 



One of the mortuary bowls excavated from the Chevlon cemeterj' 

 contained five lialf canes (figure 04) which recall those used in the 

 Zuiii game known as sholiwe." These reeds are not, however, marked 

 as are those now used at Zuiii, and differ from those found on a 

 bowl from Shumopovi (figure 74). The author believes, however, that 

 the game in which they were employed was practically the same. 



a See Owens's figure of sholiwe reeds in Popular Science Monthly, May. 1891. According to 

 Owens, four pieces of reed are employed in tins game by the ZuiSis. The manner of throwing 

 the reeds is clearly indicated by this author 



