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of the swelled part is of a lighter color than the rest, as if it had been much used in crushing wet 
or moist materials. The wood is as light colored as hickory, hut not near as heavy. It hears 
marks of laborious forming by an imperfect cutting-tool. Besides the one figured, another 
was obtained, similar to it, except there is no projection left on the handle. The entire length 
is 16, and the diameter of the face 3f inches. 
Figure 8. A Mojave plume for the head. Some are made of the downy feathers of the eagle, 
and are preserved with care, in reed cases, when not in use. Figure 9 is another variety of the 
feather ornaments. 
Figures 10, 11, 12. The principal, and commonly the only, articles of female dress among the 
Mojaves; and although described by travellers and traders as petticoats, they are simply what 
our first parents wore—aprons; one being tied on before, and another behind. Of the latter, 
fig. 10 is a specimen, consisting of loose strips of the bark of the cottonwood, or of the alamo, 
and secured around the waist by a cord. 
Figure 13. A Mojave squaw’s front apron. 
Figure 14. A basket, water-tight, and exhibiting considerable correct taste, as well as skill, 
in its construction. The slips of light colored reed, of which it is formed, are one-twentieth of 
an inch wide; the ornaments are a black edge, a row of small figures a little below the edge, 
and low down a circle of engrailed lines. Two of the baskets were captured from the Pah- 
Utahs—one 12 inches diameter, and 4 deep; the other 10 \ inches diameter, and deep. 
The skill displayed in this species of manufacture is further seen in various vase-formed ves¬ 
sels, as figs. 15 and 16. 
Figure 17. An unbaked image, similar to those on plate 38, drawn to a very small scale. 
The head is set off with hair and ear-rings. 
Figures 18 and 21. Specimens of ancient arrow-heads, of jasper, quartz, obsidian, flint, &c., 
found among ruins at Moqui springs, Pueblo creek, Aztec pass, and on the Colorado and Gila 
rivers. On the latter was found a flat bead, of bright green stone, resembling the one attached 
to the nose ornament, fig. E, plate 42. 
Plate 42 (lithograph). 
Figures A A. A gorgeous pair of aboriginal ear ornaments.* The rings are of stout brass wire, 
and nearly three inches in diameter. The drops are plates of pearl-shell, in which the tints of 
the rainbow gleam with unrivalled lustre and iridescence; they are connected to the rings by 
white and blue beads. 
B. A shell ring, or ornament, evidently cut with much labor. It was found at a casa grande , 
(Chichilticale,) near the Pima villages, on Bio Gila. Another, almost a fac-simile, was found 
among the same ruins. The diameter of each is nearly three inches. The use to which they 
were put is unknown. 
C. A slate-stone ear-drop of the Yampais. It is If inch long, smooth, and thin. 
D. One of a pair of Shawnee ear-drops, full size, and remarkable only for being made by a 
native artist. The material is silver, probably hammered out of half or quarter-dollar pieces. 
The workmanship is tolerably good, though not sufficiently so to pass muster with our city 
jewellers. D' is another variety. 
E. Nose ornament of Cairuk, a Mojave chief. It consists of a large white bead of shell, 
and from it hangs a thin conical slip of a bright and light-blue stone. The small leather thongs 
were passed through the septum of the nose, and secured the gem to it. 
F. A small tobacco-pouch, of buckskin, and tastefully set off with tvhite, purple, and other 
colored beads. It was obtained from the Lipans. 
H. A brass medal,t full size, obtained from the Mojaves. The figures have been struck in 
* These were obtained from Lipans. Comanches and Kaiowas decorate themselves with similar appendages, made of 
shells, bead and wampum work. 
f This medal is probably a relic left by Friar Pedro Font, or Father Kino, who visited the Colorado in 1700. 
