THE PIMO INDIANS. — 225 
The implements used by these tribes for spinning 
and weaving are of the most primitive character. A 
slender stick about two feet long passing through a 
block of wood which serves to keep up the momentum 
imparted to it, constitutes the spindle. One end of 
this rests on a wooden cup inserted between the toes, 
and the other is held and twirled by the fingers of the 
night hand; while the left hand is occupied in draw- 
ing out the thread from the supply of cotton, which is 
Coiled upon the left arm in loose rolls. : 
In weaying, the warp is attached to two sticks, and 
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