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lie medal or token. Xear the floor of one of the houses, eight feet 

 deep, was found half of a pair of scissors. Wooden objects were 

 fairly well preserved, considering the length of time they had been 

 buried, hence it was possible to save batten sticks for weaving, 

 prayer-sticks, bows, arrows, war-clubs, ceremonial objects, loom 

 frames (fig. 66), cane cigarettes, and the like. 



Objects of bone are noteworthy because of the fact that so few 

 were found in the graves as compared with the great number re- 

 covered from the refuse, no fewer than eighteen hundred being taken 



Fig. 74. — Tlie Zuni workmen at Hawikuh. Photograph hy E. F. Coffin. 



therefrom. These consist of awls, gouges or chisels, needles, pins, 

 whistles, beads of the tubular variety used both as necklaces and for 

 wrist-guards, etc.. and ranging from unfinished si)ecimens through 

 the simplest forms to more or less elaborately carved or incised 

 exatnples. 



The masonry of liawikuh is ui stone and is well constructed; 

 indeed the walls are far superior to those of the houses found deep 

 under the refuse (figs. 70 and 71 ), built before Hawikuh itself, or 

 at least its western j>art, was erected on the great deposit of debris 

 that covers these more ancient structures. The Zunis raised turkeys, 

 as was shown bv the finding of the fragments of an egtr-shell con- 



