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bushnell: textiles from ozark caves 



ing the vast territory from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande 

 was evidently quite extensive, and long journeys were often 

 undertaken by individuals or large parties. The coming of a 

 trading party from the Pueblos, is the event recorded in the winter 

 count of the Kiowa for 1872-1873: 



"Teguago Tsdn-de Sai, 'Winter that the Pueblos came.' In 

 this winter, while most of the Kiowa were encamped on the 

 Washita near Rainy Mountain, a party of Pueblo Indians and 

 Mexicans visited them to trade biscocho, or Pueblo bread, and 

 eagle feathers for horses and buffalo robes. "^ 



The following four specimens were likewise found in the cave 

 ''in the valley of Little Sugar Creek." 



Fig. 2. Natural size 



Figure 2. (U. S. N. M. 230,534). Border of a mat or basket. 

 The upper line of the drawing represents the finished edge. Each 

 element is about 5 mm. in diameter, but the material is badly 

 decomposed and cannot be identified. 



Fig. 3. One-half natural size 



Figure 3. (U. S. N. M. 230,536). A loosely twisted cord of 

 Indian hemp, Apocynum caymahinum. 



Figure 4. (U. S. N. M. 230,538). A fragment of a piece of 

 cloth which at the time of its discovery is said to have been about 



'' Mooney, James, Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians, in Seventeenth 

 Ann. Rept. Bureau of Ethnology, \N ashington, 1898, p. 336. 



