. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 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
. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 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 tablet is either carried or used in a vertical stationary 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. Fig. 15.—Wooden tablet used in a modern Zuni ceremony. Introduced forcomparison with figure 14. After pi. XIV, 23rd Ann. Rep., Bur. , 1901-02. a ceremony that has survived for 600 or more years. While thewooden tablet is the larger, the opening in both is almost identical insize. Applying the present Hopi interpretation of symbols, the blacktriangles on the ancient specimen are rain-clouds and the zig-zagpatterns are symbolical of lightning. The modern tablet, however,does not have the latter symbols and the rain-cloud symbols are informs of terraces, which is the common method of representationtoday. The change from stone to wood in the material of the slabwould naturally be accompanied by certain modifying features, suchas the increase in size and the cutout terraces of the present-day piece. NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA HAURY AND HARGRAVE 59 It will be noted that the base of the Pinedale slab is irregular andless carefully finished than the other three edges. It has
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