Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Fig. 92.—Interior view of kiva of Pipe Shrine House, looking north,showing shrine where pipes were found on floor. The ruin in the distanceis Far View House. (Photoeraph by Geo. L. Beam. Courtesy Denver andRio Grande ^^>stern Railroad.) NO. 5 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, ig22 95 tribute fresh air; but in place of these a segment of the floor wasseparated from the remainder by a low curved ridge of clay. Thisarea was a fireplace, as indicated by the large quantity of ashes andburnt wood it contained, and many artifacts mixed with the ashesshowed that it s
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Fig. 92.—Interior view of kiva of Pipe Shrine House, looking north,showing shrine where pipes were found on floor. The ruin in the distanceis Far View House. (Photoeraph by Geo. L. Beam. Courtesy Denver andRio Grande ^^>stern Railroad.) NO. 5 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, ig22 95 tribute fresh air; but in place of these a segment of the floor wasseparated from the remainder by a low curved ridge of clay. Thisarea was a fireplace, as indicated by the large quantity of ashes andburnt wood it contained, and many artifacts mixed with the ashesshowed that it served also as a shrine. Among other objects in it were. Fig. 93.—Several pipes from slirine on the floor of thekiva of Pipe Shrine House. Reduced a little less thanone-half. a full dozen decorated tobacco pipes made of clay, some blackened byuse, others showing no signs that they had ever been smoked. Sev-eral of these are figured in the accompanying illustration. Therewere fetishes, a small black and white decorated bowl, chipped flintstone knives of fine technique, and other objects. For many yearsit had been suspected, that the ancient inhabitants of the Alesa Verdecliff dwellings were smokers, but these pipes (figs. 93, 94) are the 96 ;.Mn[ISONlAN M COLLECTIONS \0L. 74 first oljjective evidence we have to pro\e it, and the fact that theseobjects were found in the shrine of a sacred room would indicatethat they were smoked ceremonially, as is customary in modernpueblo rites. JM-idently the priests when engaged in a ceremonialsmoke sat about this shrine and after smoking threw their pipes asnfterings into the tireplace.
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