ART. 10 BASKET MAKER BASKETS FROM NEW MEXICO — HOUGH 3 



and sewing are willow, and the splint is of yucca. No remains of 

 the attachment of the carrying straps are to be seen on this basket. 

 This specimen is to be compared with carrying baskets of similar 

 shape discovered by Guernsey in Basket Maker sites in northeastern 

 Arizona and described as Pueblo I.^ Diameter of bottom, 8 inches 

 by 6 inches ; height, 131/2 inches. (PI. 3, fig. 1.) 



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Shallow with flat bottom and rather steep sides. Sewing of narrow 

 willow splints not closely applied, leaving interspaces on the rods. 

 Willow, two-rod foundation, and splint after the earliest coil and 

 sewing method. Twenty-seven coils compose the basket, and the 

 edges are finished off by sewing in the splints. The specimen is 

 distorted by pressure, which gives additional flatness to the bottom. 

 Some mending shows on the bottom coils. The specimen has been 

 taken from cave debris, some of which still adheres. Diameter, 91/2 

 inches; height, 31/2 inches. (PI. 1, fig. 2.) 



The baskets are in rather good condition of preservation, showing 

 previous wear and repair, and but little affected by their long burial. 

 Two of the baskets show repairs, which have been made with strips 

 of yucca crudely sewed in, merely to hold the edges of the breaks 

 together. Many other instances of repair with yucca are seen in 

 Basket Maker specimens found in other localities. 



The presence of this cache of baskets in Dona Ana County fur- 

 nished good data on the diffusion of Basket Maker culture. The 

 cache has not yet been correlated with a site of these Indians in the 

 neighborhood. There is evidence that future work will extend 

 greatly the range of the southern Basket Makers. 



3 Guernsey, Samuel J., Explorations in northeastern Arizona. Papers Peabody Mus. 

 Amer. Archeol. Harvard Univ., vol. 12, no 1., pi. 13 (p. 95 for description), 1931. 



Several baskets of this type have been found in northeastern Arizona, notably by Dr. 

 Byrou Cummings. 



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