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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Identifier: bulletinunitedst871914unit (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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6 BULLETIN 87, XimTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. was most useful in furnishing feathers for the manufacture of warm clothing (for manufacture of costume see p. 71), much needed at this elevation, and were kept for the purpose like sheej) at a later period. The discovery of ancient turkey compounds is mentioned by the earlier explorers in the Pueblo region, and Castaiieda was presented at Acoma in 1540 with numbers of (turkey) " cocks with very big wattles." ^ Castaiieda also mentions in his description of Pueblo life that " there are a gxeat many native fowls in these provinces, and cocks with great hanging chins." ^ Mention is also made of the use of turkey feathers for clothing. A foot, with leg bone attached, of a species of grackle (Quiscalus) completes the list of bird remains found in the cave, except feathers, which belong to a number of species identified bj^ Mr. E. W. Nelson. The collections from this region show the importance of bird life in
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a be d Fig. 3.âTeadb bundle of parrot feathers from Tdlarosa Cavb. domestic economy, costume, and religion. For the extent to which birds were known to the Pueblos one need but examine the ornitho- logical vocabular)!^ of the Hopi by Dr. E. A. Mearns, IT. S. A.,^ Dr. J. Walter Fewkes's description of the symbolism on Sikyatki pot- tery,'* and Mrs. M. C. Stevenson's memoir on the Zuni.^ Raven (Corvus corax sinuatus). Bluebird (Sialia mexicana Baird). Parrot (Rhyncho'psitta pachyrhynchus). Feathers of this parrot were much prized (see fig. 3). Big macaw (Ara militaris). This bird is not found farther north than extreme southern Sonora, and the feather must have passed into the hands of the Tularosa people through aboriginal commerce, which in Mexico, as Sahagim relates, was conducted by traders of feathers, etc., to distant places. 1 The Coronado Eixpedition, 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnology, p. 491. 2 Idem, p. 521. 3 Amcr. Anthropolosist, vol. 9, Dec. 1896, p. 301. * .Vrcheolosicfil Expedition to Arizona in 1895, 17th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amor. Ethnology. 'â The Zufii Indians, 23d Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnology.

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