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by the old people of his tribe. Some of the Kwahadts from beyond 

 Vekol said that similar sticks were still in existence in their country, 

 and the author was able to obtain at Casa Blanca two Spanish hoe 

 tips made of iron after the same pattern as the wooden implements 

 here mentioned. 



Several wooden paddles (plate xxxix, b) used in the manufacture 

 of pottery were found with the hoes, or planting sticks, and one or 

 two were dug up elsewhere. These implements are identical in form 

 and size with the pottery paddles still used by Pima potters. 



The stone objects and implements found at Casa Grande are axes 

 (plate xxxix, c) , metates, grinding-stones (plate xxxix, /), stone 

 hoes or spades (plate xxxix, d), arrow heads, paint-grinders (plate 

 xxxix, f), and various other specimens. Paint of various colors, 

 beads made of turquoise, and flat slabs of stone for pigment grind- 

 ing are numerous. Stone balls (plate xxxix, e) like those used in 

 modern Pima games, and round or oval stones upon which the 

 ancients fashioned pottery are represented in duplicate. Of cere- 

 monial stones there are not a few — quartz crystals, botryoidal stones, 

 concretions, and other forms. 



An exceptional stone object (plate xl, c) from near Casa Grande 

 was purchased by the author. This specimen has a conical shape 

 formed by two serpents sculptured as coiled together, their heads 

 being at the apex of the object. It was probably a pigment-grinder, 

 but reminds one of the coiled stone cast of the interior of a fossil 

 shell, in the shrine at Walla, which is situated half way up the East 

 Mesa Hopi trail from the plain to Hano. It is also similar to the 

 "Heart Twister," or coiled stone fetish of the Awatobi Mazrau So- 

 ciety, now in the Berlin Museum. 



The object shown in plate xl, d is a paint slab surrounded by a 

 margin in which are parallel grooves, as in the ceremonial stone 

 slabs from Pueblo Vie jo, which the author has elsewhere 1 described. 



Plate xl, e represents a figure of stone, similar to several other 

 in the collection, made of lava rock with a depression on each side, 

 but of unknown use. 



Numerous marine shells and specimens made from the same ma- 

 terial occur in the collection. Among these are tinklers manufactured 

 from the spires of conus and rings and bracelets of pectunculus, aba- 

 lone, and turritella shells. One of the best finger-rings is nicely 

 etched on the outer surface. A shell carved in the shape of a frog 



1 22<J Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 185. 



