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68875. Ornament of wood painted light green, and with a tuft of dark brown wool in the middle; used in dances.

68876-97. Spindles used in spinning. They are composed of a disk of wood, or earthenware, about 4 inches in diameter, through the center of which pa.s.ses a slender stick, a foot or more in length. Several of them have a piece of corn-cob on the end of the stick. For use, see pl. xliv.

68898. Sticks used in spinning.

68899. Sticks used for arrow shafts.

68900. Bird snares.

68901-7, 69025. Sleys used in weaving.

68908-9. Reed matting.

68910-15. Bundles of gra.s.s stems used as hair brushes.

68916-25. Ceremonial sticks with b.a.l.l.s attached.

68965-6. Waist or breech cloths of cotton cloth.

68979. Gra.s.s hair brush.

HEAD-DRESSES, DANCE ORNAMENTS, IMAGES, ETC.

68981. Dancing head-dress, made of a hemispherical wicker-work basket to fit the head, surmounted by large horns of skin painted with light colored clay, and supposed to represent the mountain sheep (ovis america.n.u.s).

68983. Head-dress of leather and cotton cloth, painted white and black.

68986. Head-dress composed of a ring of cotton cloth, stuffed with some soft substance, and with a wooden tablet at one side and a horn at the other, and painted black and white.

68987-90. Head-dresses, segments of a circle of basketware, with zigzag sticks protruding from the edge to represent lightning.

68991-4. Head-dress shaped like 68986, but the ring is of rawhide, and the rest of wood. The horn on one side is a frame-work of twigs covered with a netting of cotton twine.

68996-9. Yoke-shaped wooden stick with funnel-shaped ornament of cotton string, stretched over ribs of iron wire at one end of it.

69000. A dance ornament very similar in shape to the preceding, but the funnel is of gourd, painted green, and the stick is ornamented with white, red, and black in the center.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XLIV. Moki Method of Spinning.]

69001. Ceremonial throwing stick or boomerang, painted white, red, and black.

69002. Dance ornament of wood, ornamented with a tuft of wool.

69003. Gambling sticks painted in lozenges, black and white.

69004. Gambling sticks, plain black.

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