. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA REGION. 105 bird was secured to a staff. There is a probable relationship between this object and the staffs with a bird carved on the upper extremity. (See figs. 211-213.) The Hopi make birds with movable wings that seem closely related to the joinery birds from the caves (see figs. 214, 215). (Cat. No. 35262, ; length, 6-1 inches; width, 4| inches. Collected by Henry and James K. Metcalf.) A notable specimen of ancient art was taken from the Bear Creek cave by visitors in the neigh- borhood at the time
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA REGION. 105 bird was secured to a staff. There is a probable relationship between this object and the staffs with a bird carved on the upper extremity. (See figs. 211-213.) The Hopi make birds with movable wings that seem closely related to the joinery birds from the caves (see figs. 214, 215). (Cat. No. 35262, ; length, 6-1 inches; width, 4| inches. Collected by Henry and James K. Metcalf.) A notable specimen of ancient art was taken from the Bear Creek cave by visitors in the neigh- borhood at the time the Museum-Gates explora- tion was in progress. A photograph was secured, but an attempt to reclaim the specimen failed. It consists of two strips of wood crossed at right angles and sewed together with yucca cord, rep- resenting a bird, probably a woodpecker, in flight. (PI. 21.) The colors used in painting this ob- ject are white, black, salmon, yellow, red, blue, and green, showing greater variety and a greater discrimination in shades of color than in a ma- jority of specimens from this locality. A flat staff decorated with a very simple bird convention and for support- ing a plume paho is shown in figiire 217. (Cat. No. 246580, ; Bear Creek Cave.) A plume or bird paho from a cave near Silver III. City, New Mexico, collected Fig. 217.—Bird design on plume staff FROM Beak Creek Cave. by Henry and James K. Met- calf, consists of strips of thin wood sewed to a crosspiece (fig. 218), the central strip forming the sup- port. The colors used in decorating this object are red on the body and the tips of the feathers blue. This paho appears to represent a feather plume or bird like that shown in figures 5 and 6, plate 22, but ruder in conception and execution. (Cat. No. 35263, ; length, 6 inches; width, 2| inches.) Another instructive paho from the same locality is formed of thin, soft strips cut from the flower stalk of dasylirion and a disk of gourd joined toge
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