Closeup of dart or stalk pajo, or prayer stick, reported by C.B. Cosgrove from Ceremonial Cave, circa 1928. The atlatl darts are shown with attached fiber bolls which were filled with tobacco. The pajos were made of sotol bloom stalks. Specimen "b" is roughly 20 inches long; the originals would have been much longer. Image from Cosgrove 1947.
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