178 ANTIQUITIES OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO [ETH. ANN. 33 
hand, and the blade is beveled to an edge. / and ¢ are of unknown 
function. They are flat chips which have a curved edge, apparently 
the result of rubbing. / is a stick resembling some of the pahos 
figured by Dr. Hough.t. G@ and g’ are wooden objects whose use is 
undetermined. /Z is the head of a reed arrow. The notch for the 
cord and the sinew holding the stubs of the feathers are easily dis- 
tinguishable. J is the tip of a similar arrow. <A hard wooden 
point has been set into the hollow reed and securely bound with 
sinew. /J/ isa stick with neatly cut ends, the use of which is entirely 
problematical. The other sticks appear to have been arrows. The 
notch for the cord shows in every case, but often the opposite ends 
are misshapen and out of plumb, so that they would have been prac- 
tically useless as arrows. 
FIRE STICKS 
A fire-making set is shown in plate 47, a. The bottom stick is of 
light, punky wood. Upon it the long stick of hardwood was held 
upright and rotated, in time wearing out the conical pits which 
show in the cut. The ignited dust ran out through a groove in the 
side of the pit onto a small bundle of cedar bark or corn husks, 
either of which could easily be fanned into a blaze. 
QUIVER 
The object represented plate 46, 6, is unlike anything I have 
seen described from the Mesa Verde. It is a long, cylindrical basket 
made of reeds, prebably Phragmites phragmites. Interlaced strips 
of yucca hold it together, and the bottom is closed with a wad of 
corn husks. Although it is known that most of the quivers used by 
the cliff-dwellers were made of skin, it is difficult to assign any other 
function to the object in question. 
HAIRBRUSH 
A hairbrush made of the needles of the rock pine (Pinus scopu- 
lorum) was found in Eagle Nest House (pl. 47, 6). It is bound 
about the middle with a three-strand cord of twisted human hair, 
and still contains a liberal quantity of black and dark-brown 
combings. 
POT RESTS 
In plate 48 are shown five hoops which were used as rests for the 
bases of large jars. They are made of willow, cedar bark, corn 
husks, some of shredded yucca leaves, bound together with strips of 
yucea. 
1Op. cit., pl. 20. 
