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WUPATKI PUEBLO: A STUDY IN CULTURAL FUSION AND ...

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sticks or weeding tools, and as such, would have been effec­<br />

tive in the soft cinders of the Wupatki area. Their "blades<br />

stlso resemble those of the modern Hopi Indian tool, the coa.<br />

which is commonly utilized to slice off weeds at ground level<br />

{Underhill 19Fig* 21, 5)» However, Hough (1918, Pig. 2)<br />

illustrates another Hopi tool with a similar blade which he<br />

calls a wooden hoe. Modern ethnographic references thus<br />

suggest that they were multi-purpose, one-handed farming tools.<br />

Straight Cylindrical Digging Sticks<br />

One tip fragment was found of the common prehistoric<br />

and modern Pueblo digging stick (Fig. ^8 c). It is made from<br />

a cylindrical, roughly smoothed, ponderosa pine branch, and<br />

is 2.5 cm. in diameter and 28 cm. long, and has a slightly<br />

thinned and flattened wedge-shaped end, 1.5 cm, in diameter.<br />

There is a slight S curve near the tip, a feature common in<br />

such sticks.<br />

Provenience. Rooms 1, W-a; Trash (5).<br />

Distribution. Digging sticks frequently have been<br />

found in the Southwest. Both flat-bladed and pointed sticks<br />

have been noted, but only rarely handled, short, wide-bladed<br />

implements. Straight, cylindrical digging sticks are wide­<br />

spread, but are mainly found in the Pueblo region. Grange<br />

lists 18 Mogollon and Anasazl sites which produced such sticks

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