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wristlets, and finger rings made of the marine shell, Pectunculus gigan- 

 teus, sometimes inlaid with stone. They made basketry like that still 

 manufactured at the Moki pueblos, Oraibi, and the Middle Mesa, and 

 wrapped their dead in coarse matting of rushes or other fibers. 



The priests made elaborate pahos or prayer sticks, some of which 

 were several feet long, and painted them with yellow, green, blue, red, 

 white, and black pigments, the same as those used by their descend- 

 ants. Tbey prized for ceremonial purposes quartz crystals, stone con- 

 cretions, and fragments of obsidian. They were acquainted with bells 

 made of copper. They had rattles of sea shells and wore fringes of 

 shells on the margins of their garments. In ceremonials they made 

 use of stone slabs painted with figures of animals which frequent 

 water. 



The warriors were armed with bows and arrows tipped with stone 

 and obsidian points. They had mauls and clubs, stone hammers, celts, 

 and axes. They made needles, bodkins, and awls of bird bones, ante- 

 lope tibiae and ribs, which they sometimes carved in imitation of animals. 



The women were adepts in the manufacture of earthenware vessels, 

 which they decorated with elaborate figures in several colors. They 

 were familiar with the art of glazing pottery, and practiced etching of 

 the same to a very limited extent. 



They buried their dead just beyond the outer home walls, and 

 deposited with them various votive offerings, pottery, basketry, cere- 

 monial and other paraphernalia, having first painted the face and 

 wrapped the body in matting. Over the grave, as environment dic- 

 tated, they placed square or rectangular perforated stone slabs, or 

 covered the corpse with cedar logs resting on stones at either end and 

 weighted with the same at the extremities. 



In their mythology, the symbols on their pottery indicate that they 

 recognized the sun and spider as powerful deities. They worshipped 

 the rain clouds, lightning, snake, tadpole, frog, and various mythic 

 birds. The designs on their pottery was similar to that of the ancient 

 Tusayan people; broken encircling bands, terraces, spirals, and zigzags 

 were common. The leaf or flower was not used in artistic decorations, 

 and human figures only sparingly copied. They entertained an idea 

 of a future life, and associated the dead with rain gods. With the 

 deceased they deposited votive offerings in food vessels, and buried 

 costly (to them) property with the defunct. 



cunopavi. 



The discoverers of Tusayan in 1540 sought "seven cities,"' but there 

 is no evidence that they found more than five, for the narratives of 

 visitors in the sixteenth century discredits the vague report of seven 

 Tusayan pueblos. At the time Tobar visited this province, and for 

 a century later, there were probably only five pueblos on what is now 

 called the "Moki Eeservation." These villages were Awatobi, Walpi, 



