NO. 12 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I917 



71 



lie medal or token. Near the tloor of one of the houses, eight feet 

 deep, was found half of a pair of scissors. Wooden objects were 

 fairly well preserved, considering the length of time they had been 

 buried, hence it was possible to save batten sticks for weaving, 

 prayer-sticks, bows, arrows, war-clubs, ceremonial objects, loom 

 frames (fig. 66), cane cigarettes, and the like. 



Objects of bone are noteworthy because of the fact that so few 

 were found in the graves as compared with the great number re- 

 covered from the refuse, no fewer than eighteen hundred being taken 



Fig. 74. — The Zuni workmen at Hawikuh. Photograph liy E. F. Coffin. 



therefrom. These consist of awls, gouges or chisels, needles, pins, 

 whistles, beads of the tubular variety used both as necklaces and for 

 wrist-guards, etc., and ranging from unfinished specimens through 

 the simplest forms to more or less elaborately carved or incised 

 examples. 



The masonry of llawikuh is of stone and is well constructed; 

 indeed the walls are far superior to those of the houses found deep 

 under the refuse (figs. 70 and 71), built before Hawikuh itself, or 

 at least its western i)art, was erected on the great deposit of debris 

 that covers these more ancient structures. The Zufiis raised turkeys, 

 as was shown by the finding of the fragments of an egg-shell con- 



