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produced by like means, for its inner surface is finished with such 

 nicety; is polished and blackened so uniformly as to preclude use 

 of any method of drilling known from the Southwest. Both edges 



are split. There remains no evidence 



of drilled holes : 

 pings. Yet the 



no trace of wrap- 

 fragment is almost 

 certainly part of a large flute. The 14 

 external grooves were incised with flint 

 flakes or knives. 



Scrapers (fig. 15, <2-&). — The usual 

 number of pine and cedar splinters 

 employed in smoothing and scraping 

 operations is in the collection. 



Mask attachment ( ? ) . — A stopper- 

 like object of Cottonwood (fig. 16) is 

 one of several specimens wdiose original 

 function may only be surmised. Two 

 ' otton strings, projecting from a hole 

 drilled through its lesser diameter, ap- 

 pear to have crossed the larger in the 

 groove indicated. 



Painted stick. — A cylindrical piece 



of wood, probably willow, y'*g-inch 



(0.011 m.) in diameter by 1% inches 



(0.044 m.) long, covered with thick, 



dark green paint (312299). 



Drill. — It is incredible that the crude 

 drill shown in Plate 36, 1 and Figure 

 IT, 6 was the tool of a skilled artisan. 

 Its rudely chipped, chert point is set in 

 the split end of a greasewood shaft and 



loosely bound with a shred of yucca leaf. A second drill, comparable 



in crudeness but less worn, is mounted in a reed shaft. (Fig. 17, a.) 

 Spindle shafts and tohorls (pi. 36, 2-4; 



12-16). — Spindle shafts are invariably made 



of some hardwood that takes and holds a 



smooth, even finish. Our longest (312363), a 



fragment, measures 14 -inch in diameter by 



233/s inches (0.006 by 0.59 m.). Such slen- 

 der, pointed shafts as 2 seem altogether too 



fragile for spindles. 



Six whorls, mostly Cottonwood, vary in 



diameter from li/^ (0.038 m.) to 2 inches 



(0.050 m.) ; in thickness, from % (0.015 m.) to 1{\ inches (0.033 m.). 



The finest (13) is convex on one side; flat and centrally cupped on 



the other. One fragmentary specimen (312287) is convex on 



FiGUKE 15. — Wooden scrapers 



Figure 16. — Wooden 



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