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small mouths; one class has a little osier handle on the side of the 

 month like a pitcher, ])ut the majority have one or two loops of wood, 

 horsehair, or osier fastened on one side for carr^^inj^. All of them 

 are quite heavy, having been dipped in pitch. The same form is found 

 among the Apache, Mohave, Hopi, and Rio Grande pueblos, but it 

 is not improbable that they were obtained from the Ute. These 

 bottle-shaped baskets are used for small granaries as well — to hold 

 s<>ed !ind keep them away from vermin. 



The basket trays of the Ute do not differ essentially in general 

 style from those of the Gila River or California tri])es, but the}' are 

 nuich coarser. Among the coiled basket trays in the collection 

 accredited to the Ute are indeed two styles, but one of them resemldes 

 so nuich those of their Apache neighbors on the south as to raise the 

 suspicion that they were obtained by barter. 



Fig. 179. 



woman's hat. 



Ute Indians, TTtali. 



Cat. No. llS:i,S. Coll.'ptf.l hy .1. W. Powell. 



The typical styles here mentioned, as well as interesting variations, 

 will be best understood from examples. 



The National Museum has a rare old collection of Ute or Shoshonean 

 material, of which A. H. Tliompson writes that of the l)askets and 

 other articles of Indian manufacture gathered by the Powell expedi- 

 tions between 1870 and 1876 the greater part, prol^ably nine-tenths, 

 were secnired from the Kaivavits at Kaibal) and the Shivwits about 

 St. George, southern Utah, and the Moapas al)()ut St. Thomas, south- 

 eastern Nevada. These clans all belong to the Paiute Nation. The 

 articles secured from the Ute were from the Gosiute al)out Deep 

 Creek in western Utah and the Uinta Ute on the Uinta Reservation. 

 By far the larger part of the Paiute collection was from the Kaiva- 

 vits. Much of the clothing (buckskin and ra])bit fur) and many of 

 the baskets were made by the Indians working under the direction or 



