AlSrCIENT PUEBLOS OF UPPEE GILA REGION. 



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Figure 322, stepped design in red, black, and plain. Apex design, 

 four-cloud figures in motion. (Cat. No. 246135, U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 323, design in black, edged with green and plain; variety 

 of terrace pattern (clouds). 



Figure 324, terrace cloud design in black, red, and green and plain 

 splint color. (Cat. Xo. 246134 U.S.N.M.) 



Fig. 323. 



-Design on basket paho from 

 Bear Creek Cave. 



Fig. 324. — Design on basket paho 

 FROM Bear Creek Cave. 



Figure 325, terrace cloud design in black, red, and splint color. 

 (Cat. No. 232089, U.S.N.M.) 



Figure 326, basket regularly sewed with black and straw color 

 splints, and the design which appears to represent stars and clouds 

 shows on the interior. (Cat. No. 246128, U.S.N.M.) 



Fig. 325. — Design on basket paho 

 FROM Bear Creek Cave. 



Fig. 326.- 



-Dbsign on basket paho from 

 Bear Creek Cavb. 



FLUTE PAHOS. 



Offerings which evidentlj^ represent flutes occur in the Bear Creek 

 Cave. The most perfect specimen (fig. 331) is of basketry, worked by 

 the diaper-twilled method over a wooden rod, and expanded at the 

 upper end to form the bell of the flute. An extra weaving of cord 

 worked in the splints is shown in darker shading in the drawing. 

 (Cat. No. 232092, U.S.N.M.; length, 9i inches; diameter of bell', 4i 

 inches.) 



Another specimen (fig. 329) consists of the pithy stem of some 

 plant, overlaid with diaper work of narrow splints in black and nat- 

 ural color. The weaving is very even and the pattern good. The 



