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Pendant. — The only undoubted ornament we recovered is a thin 

 disk of red clay stone (312304), drilled at one edge for suspension 

 and in the middle for diversion. 



Lignite ornannent (fig. 7). — Through a ridge across the middle 

 back, two V-drillings provided means of attachment. On one edge 

 are four vertical and parallel incised lines. The material is iignitized 

 wood, highly resinous. 



OBJECTS or WOOD 



For working wood, the inhabitants of Betatakin had only flakes 

 and chipped knives of flint; they used sandstone for rasping and 

 smoothing. 



Board (pi. 33, 1). — The specimen illustrated is an oak board, care- 

 fully finished but subsequently burned. Through one corner is a 



nearly vertical, drilled hole; on the 

 (■f^ ^'^^. *4.^ same side and at approximately one- 



i^'''''i^'Sfi^!V^.M^'C^/*^hv third the total length is a similar hole, 



bored at an angle of 55°. The two 

 fragments which compose this speci- 

 men were found widely separated, the 

 larger on the surface; the smaller, 

 buried in the sand above room 55. 

 Hence the difference in coloration seen 

 on the original. 



A small, charred fragment of a 

 like board, of cottonwood, is also 

 drilled through one corner; the flat- 

 ter side is deeply scored by cutting 



Figure 7. — Lignite button , ^„^„„,^v 



tools (312346). 



Billets (pi. 33, 2-4) . — Three cottonwood billets, or lapboards, and 

 fragments of two others (312343) are in the collection. Two of the 

 five still possess the original convex curve of the tree trunk, although 

 slightly modified; all exhibit on their flat sides and rounded edges 

 '^,he marks of cutting and scraping implements or the pricks of some 

 sharp-pointed tool. The longest of the three illustrated was made 

 from a cottonwood root ; all the others are from sections of the stem. 



Digging sticks (pi. 34, 4-7). — Nine reused fragments of oak dig- 

 ging implements are all we found. For fuller understanding of 

 these essential tools of primitive agriculture, reference should be 

 made to Kidder and Guernsey (1919, p. 119) and other authorities. 



In addition there is the problematical specimen shown in Plate 

 34, 1. Doubt hangs upon this latter from the fact that its pointed 

 end is rounded and blunted, not flattened and sharpened as is always 



