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BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Arizona tribes. (Cat. No. 232099, U.S.N.M.; diameter, 4^ inches; 

 height, 21 inches.) 



DKSIGNS ON PAINTED BASKET PAHOS, 



A number of remarkable painted baskets were found in the shrines 

 on the floor of Bear Creek Cave. They are all coiled and nearly all 

 " lazy stitch " in which the sewing into the succeeding coil is at inter- 

 vals, the remainder of the coil be- 

 tween the stitches being covered 

 by a winding of the sewing splint. 



Fig. 319. — Design on basket paho 

 FROM Beae Creek Cave. 



Fig. 320. — Design on basket paho from 

 Bear Creek Cave. 



Professor Mason remarked at the time the baskets were brought to 

 the Museum that heretofore the " lazy stitch " had only been observed 

 in California. Painted baskets also were previous to this time un- 

 known to collectors, although white, frequently, and sometimes blue 

 are applied as a wash to portions of the design of Hopi decorated 

 wicker plaques. 



The designs are drawn on the exterior of these paho baskets, and it 

 will be seen that they are intended to be placed on the paho stick 



Fig. 321. — Design on basket paho from 

 Beak Creek Cave. 



Fig. 322. — Design on basket paho from 

 Bear Creek Cave. 



inverted, almost all of them having a hole in the bottom for the pass- 

 ing through of the rod. The interior of the basket is often covered 

 with a coating of red, or may be left plain. 



Figure 319, simple design, formed by covering halves of the basket 

 with red and black. 



Figure 320, star design, dividing the basket into segments which 

 field of basket, red. (Cat. No. 246141, U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 321, star design in black at apex; wave design at margin; 

 field of basket, red. (Cat. No. 246141, U.S.N.M.) 



