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Identifier: smithsonianmisce821931sm (find matches)
Title: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ing line a dark redpigment shows up clearly, apparently a part of a previous design. Tothe right and left of the opening are free zig-zag patterns in yellowoutlined in black except for the ends which are left open. The inneredge of the hole is finished with black pigment, now almost whollyobliterated. A single black line near the base completes the decoration. As to its use, we believe it safe to say that the slab formed a partof an altar decoration or was othei-wise used in religious rites. Thisinference is not wholly without foundation for painted slabs are stillused by the Hopi Indians in the construction of the Antelope altar inthe Snake Ceremonial.* Matilda Coxe Stevenson, in her treatise ofZuiii mythology and ritual, records a ceremony in which a wooden Fewkes, J. W., 1894, p. 43- Coming of Koloowisi (Plumed Serpent) and Involuntary initiation into theKotikill. Twenty-third Ann. Rep., Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pp. 94-102, 1901-02. NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA—HAURY AND HARGRAVE 57
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Key to Colors: r-X-j-l VCLLOWBLACK Fig. 14.—Painted altar slab from Pinedale ruin, (i actual size.) 58 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82 tablet bearing a large opening plays an important part (see fig. 15,introduced here for comparison). The tablet is ornamented with cloudterraces cut into the wood and outlined in color. In the center is acircular hole 9 or 10 inches in diameter through which the head ofthe fetish, KoJoowisi (plumed serpent), is passed at specified timesduring the ceremony. The serpent efiigy is about 8 inches in diameter.The tablet is either carried or used in a vertical stationary position.It is not improbable that the stone slab found by us, is precursoryto the wooden tablet in use today and that both are a manifestation of

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  • bookid:smithsonianmisce821931sm
  • bookyear:1862
  • bookdecade:1860
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Smithsonian_Institution
  • booksubject:Science
  • bookpublisher:Washington___Smithsonian_Institution
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:512
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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