ABURiaiNAL AMEKICAN BASKETRY. 



497 



(Compare 



7. Three-rod coil foundation (Bam-slii-))ii). 



8. Coiled network, the .spirals twi.sted on themselves. 

 Muskemoot, Plate 102.) 



*,♦. Sandals with knots of various patterns in the lacing. 



In a paper by Dr. George 11. Pepper," attention is called to a cliff 

 people formerly living in (Irand Gulch region of southeastern Utah 

 called the '"Basket ^Makers."' They are shown to have worn beautiful 

 rob(>s of feathers and of ral)l)it skins woven, and sandals of yucca libei' 

 s([iiar('d in front, and to ha\e had little or no pottery. They fought 

 with "atlatls'' rather than bows, and hunted with the Hopi rabbit 

 stick. Most interesting of all, they lived in caves, but not in stone 

 houses. In some of the caves the houses of the Cliff Dw^ellers have been 

 found overlying the remains of the earlier Basket Makers. Finally, 

 the bodies of the dead were doubled up, 

 })laced at the bottom of potholes or gran- 

 aries, some of which were lined with 

 l>aked clay, covered with robes and linally 

 with baskets, either several small ones 

 or one large carrying basket. The last- 

 named feature is said to have been almost 

 invuriabl}' in evidence, and it is to this 

 that attention is here given. The mate- 

 rial is willow, the designs on the baskets 

 being in splints of black or a peculiar dull 

 red. The bottoms of the carrying baskets 

 were reenforced with heavy yucca cord. 

 The borders were finished with the ordinary coiled stitch, but in some 

 the last inch or two are finished off' with false braid or herringbone. 



One example of Dr. Pepper's, called openwork or sifter basket, has 

 a single rod foundation and the wrapping at one turn passes around 

 the foundation only; at the next it is drawn under the rod in thf^coi! 

 below and returning is wrapped about itself or '"the standing part," 

 as the sailors say. The ordinary Japanese lunch baskets, Samoan 

 basket work, and those from the Straits of Magellan are on the same 

 plan. But it is certainly a rare sight in this part of the world. (See 

 Plate 817.) 



Plates 20.5 and 206 are from the Pepper collection of coiled basketry 

 from the caves of the ancient Basket Makers. The particular speci- 

 mens will be described under separate photographs of each one, but 

 the group shows both the forms and functions of the material gathered 

 in this interesting localit3^ 



« The Ancient Basket Makers of RoutheaHterii I'tah, Guide Leaflet No. 6 of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1902. 



NAT MUS 1902 32 



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.SyUARE INCH OF FHi. 1S7. 



