FEWKES] 



OBJECTS FROM LITTLE COLOEADO EUINS 



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One or two food bowls were found in whicli figures of tliese gaming 

 reeds are painted on the inside of the bowl, as is mentioned later in 

 this report. 



Seeds 



Many of the food basins contained seeds of maize or sqiiash, and 

 ears of maize from which the kernels had decayed were found in 

 several bowls. 



The ears or cobs show 

 that the maize was a 

 small variety, like that 

 found ill cliff houses 

 and still cultivated by 

 the modern Hopi farm- 

 ers. The occurrence of 

 sqiiash seeds in some of 

 the mortuary bowls is 

 important, indicating 

 the ancient use of this 

 vegetable for food. It 

 may, in this connec- 

 tion, be borne in mind 

 that one of the southern 

 clans of the Hojii In- 

 dians was called the 

 Patufi or Squash fam- 

 il}' , which is still repre- 

 sented at Oraibi and the 

 Middle mesa, although 

 it is extinct at Walpi. 

 Numerous other small 

 seeds too shriveled for 

 identification were 

 found in the mortuary 

 offerings in the ceme- 

 tei'ies of Homolobi and 



Chevlon. It would seem from the nature of a matrix in which they 

 were inclosed that thev had been boiled or cooked in some waj'. 



Food 



Almost every bowl found iji the cemeteries contained fragments of 

 what appeared to have been food, but in most instances this was too 

 much destroyed to be identified. It was ordinarily in the form of a 

 thin film coating the interior of the bowl, and was penetrated by 

 roots whicli had found their way from the surface of the ground. 

 There is little doubt that in some instances this food was one of the 

 many kinds of corn liread so common among the modern Ilopis. 



Fig. 64. 



Gaming canes from Chevlun ( number l-3ti030j . 

 about 8^ inches. 



Length 



