NO. I SMITHSONIAN EX in.OKATIOXS, I9I9 63 



On their altar at the great winter solstice ceremony at Walpi, one 

 object of whicli is the increase of life by calling back the sun, the 

 Hopi now employ an idol representing- the god of germination. This 

 idol is half oval in shape, the surface being painted with symbols of 

 corn. A similar undecorated idol (fig. 60), found at Square Tower 

 House, one of the best ever collected, was cemented bv the author in a 

 conspicuous place at the head of the stairway. 



An almost perfect reed mat (fig. 61), resembling those often 

 deposited with the dead, was found in a room of Square Tower 

 House. Good specimens of feathered cloth were wrapped around 

 skeletons of infants. A fine pottery rest (fig. 62), and a stick which 



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Fig. 64. — Incised maze on one side of an artificially worked cubical 

 stone found with idol of the germ-god. The dotted line does not exist 

 on the specimen, but was placed there to enable the reader to trace the 

 meander. Photograph by T. G. Lemmon. 



shows excellent carving on one end (fig. 63), occur in the collection ; 

 there are also many bone needles, basket fragments, and other objects 

 similar to those elsewhere described. 



A cubical stone with an incised design (fig. 64) found in the same 

 room as the idol of the germ god, is worthy of special mention as 

 the maze or labyrinth depicted upon it is unlike any pictograph yet 

 described from the Southwest. 



Theoretically, Earth Lodge A is supposed to resemble forms of 

 dwellings that have survived to our day among non-pueblo tribes. 



