ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPER GILA REGION. 



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fingers, the resultant fabric resembling basketry. A number of the 

 middle loops at the ends were woven over to f onn a strong loop for the 

 attachment of cords to the band. 



The pattern, which is shown en- 

 tire in the chief figure and in de- 

 tail in figure 169, is of the highest 

 order of design and taste. It re- 

 sembles the patterns pressed in 

 the ridges of clay on the coiled 

 pottery (fig. 2, pi. 7) of the re- 

 gion of Gila culture. The speci- 

 men appears to be a forehead 

 band and may have been attached 

 to a cradle. 



Another curious woven fabric 

 (fig. 170) from a cave in the 

 Red Rock country, Arizona, was 

 collected by Dr. J. Walker 

 Fewkes. (Cat. No. 156275, 

 U.S.N.M.) The fabric is rep- fig. i68.- 

 resented by a fragment of prob- 

 ably a loin cloth or sandal and is composed of a weft of bundled 

 cords or strips of native cloth interwoven with cord, and the 



Ornamented woven band fbom 

 Red Rock. 



Fig. 169. — Pattekx op woven band from Red Rock. 



cloth is in effect rag carpet. This type of weaving is very rare, 

 and, so far as observed, confined to this locality. It has, how- 



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