. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . teries at Sikyatki, Homolobi, Chevlon, Chaves pass, and doubtful instance occurred in the Kintiel burial ground, where ametate was found in the graveyard, but not near anj^ skeleton. STONE SLABS The presence of stone slabs, some of which are of considerable size,has been recorded in several ruins of New Mexico and Arizona, andthese objects were also found at Sikyatki, Homolobi, and of these specimens were collected at Four-mile ruin. Manyof the perforated stones wer
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . teries at Sikyatki, Homolobi, Chevlon, Chaves pass, and doubtful instance occurred in the Kintiel burial ground, where ametate was found in the graveyard, but not near anj^ skeleton. STONE SLABS The presence of stone slabs, some of which are of considerable size,has been recorded in several ruins of New Mexico and Arizona, andthese objects were also found at Sikyatki, Homolobi, and of these specimens were collected at Four-mile ruin. Manyof the perforated stones were extracted from the floors of the kivas, STONE SLABS FROM FOUR-MILE RUIN 161 others, generally with an orifice of larger size, from the soil coveringthe rooms. It has been suggested that some of these perforated stones wereformerly linilt into walls of rooms to partially close the but their presence in graves is not readily explained by this fashioning demanded considerable labor, and the author recallsone of these perforated stones where the edge had been worked smoothwith great care. 22 ETH—04 11 162 TWO summers WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS [eth. ann. 22 lu liis report on the operations in 180(3 at Ilomolobi and tlie Chev-lon ruin, the author called attention to the presence in graves ofstone slabs on which figures of rain clouds were depicted, and in theexcavations at Sikyatlii he found similarlj^ decorated stone practice of burying stone slabs ornamented with rain-cloud sym-bols was not unknown at Four-mile ruin, as one of the objects fromgraves at that place attests. This specimen has a rectangular formand is decorated with a terraced rain cloud painted in black out-line on one side. It is possible that the grave from which this slabwas taken was that of a priest, and that this object was formerly usedin ceremonies, as is the case with c
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