Note 21 — PARAPHERNALIA

Stevenson, in 1879 at Zuñi, noted that the paint was applied to pottery “with brushes made of the leaves of the yucca. These brushes are made of flat pieces of the leaf, which are stripped off and bruised at one end, and are of different sizes adapted to the coarse or fine lines the artist may wish to draw” (1883, p. 330). Mrs. Stevenson wrote, again of Zuñi: “Yucca glauca Nutt. Soapweed.... The brushes employed for decorating pottery are made from the leaves of this plant, which, for this purpose, are cut the proper lengths and fringed at one end” (1915, p. 82).