3,i as halytôṭa, spider, is puzzling as to why its name, and is also abnormal formally.
PLATE 4: SPOONS
These are ladles, dippers, scoops, as one will, but I retain the "spoon" which the Mohave most often gave as their English term for native kam'óta. They are of course not taken into the mouth, but held to it while gruel flows out; or perhaps more often they serve as a convenient holder of an individual or temporary portion which is scooped into the mouth with two or three fingers which are then sucked off. They also serve to ladle boiled food from large cook pots into bowls or platters.
I give, first, identifications, sizes, and design names; then shapes; and finally a discussion of painted patterns.
Identifications
a, 13800, length 174 mm.
b, 1731, l. 201. Called kas'uyule. Design doubtfully recorded as hotahpave face paint.
c, 13802, l. 182.
d, 4320, l. 175. Design name: ta-hlame-hlame, "patches," and "butterfly inside," humanape iyaly ("in the mouth"?).
e, 1736, l. 123; handle hollow, rattling, "tšíwitši-witš."
f, 7098, from older University collections (pre-1901), Mohave provenience assumed, not recorded; l. 194; handle hollow, rattling.
g, 1737, l. 175. Design name: kyauelkyau, "angled, zigzag."
h, 13803, l. 225.
i, 13805, l. 178.
j, 13804, l. 190.
k, 1747, l. 186.
l, 1730, l. 198. Design name: coyote teeth.
m, 13809, l. 207.
n, 13810, l. 156.
o, 1749, l. 113. Design name: fish backbone. This piece was obtained from Nyavarup: see pl. 3,g.
p, 1712, l. 155. Design name: raccoon hand.
q, 4319, l. 225. Design name: coyote teeth.
r, 4356, l. 177.
s, 13807, l. 210.
Shapes
Hollow, rattling handles, consisting of a three-cornered box, are found on e,f,r. In each case, the end is modeled into a rude quail's head, showing eyes and beak (or topknot?).
Some rudiments of a quail head, but without hollow compartment, appear also in a-d,q; possibly in i,k.
The foregoing have the outer edges, toward the top, somewhat raised and a bit incurved. This sort of an edge shows also in g,h,j, which however possess no rudiments of the quail's head. The edge faces forward (if the hollow of the spoon is regarded as its front).