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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig, 170. — Woven fabkic band from Red Rock. 



ever, a relationship to the fur and feather cord textile and to coiled 

 basketry. 

 A remarkable band of textile (fig. 171) was found wrapped around 



a paho offered in a 

 shrine at Bear Creek 

 Cave. (Cat. No. 

 24G020, U.S.N.M.) 

 It consists of a series 

 of graduated loops in 

 four sets of three each, 

 knotted in a continu- 

 ous cord and a similar 

 series of unifonn loops 

 worked into the bases of the first series. The gi^aduated loops 

 run from right to left alternately, making triangular areas and 

 and the even loops border two 

 sides of the triangles, nmning thus 

 zigzag across the band. A bind- 

 ing cord is run along the margin 

 and knotted into the fabric at 

 the apex of the triangles. The 

 beginning loops are shown at a 

 gathered on a cord which forms 

 the end of the band; the sec- 

 ond series of loops is shown at Ij; 

 the knot is shown in front at c; 

 in reverse at d and opened at e; a 

 portion of the band in detail is 

 shown at // the edge cord at 

 p-, h; the band unwrapped from 

 the paho at i; and the specimen 

 as found at _/'. The cords are yel- 

 low and dark brown in color. 



Length of stick, 5 inches; diam- 

 eter, I inch; width of band, 1^ 

 inches. 



Cloth from the Tularosa cave 

 is of several varieties, the com- 

 monest being a coarse brown fiber 

 textile resembling burlap made of 

 shredded yucca fiber or willow 

 bark. It is found in connection 

 with sandals and was worn as insole and wrap-stocking. Some pieces 

 of this cloth are woven of rather well-dressed cord and, though coarse, 



FiQ. 171. 



Knot-wokk band from Bear 

 Creek Cave. 



