498 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Plato 207 is a coiled tray, haviii*;' as design two circles of figures 

 resembling' aquatic birds floating on the water. This is an excellent 

 opportunity to speculate about the relation of this desert region with 

 prayers to the water god. 



Plate 208 is another coiled tra}^ from the cave dwellers, with an 

 ornamental design, showing two sinuous rings in black. 



Plate 20!) contains two bowls apparently with the three-rod coil; 

 such is now common among the best Ixisket makers of California. 

 The ornamentation is also suggestive of the same locality. On the 

 up})er figure are four radial designs triangular in outline, two having 

 their bases at the })ottom and two on the outer border, each pattern 

 made up of fringe work of triangles, reminding one of the strings of 

 arrowhead patterns mentioned by Dr. Dixon in his pamphlet on the 

 Maidu. The lower figure is similarly constructed in coiled weaving, 

 the ornamentation being in circular patterns; the bottom is plain; 

 then follow narrow rings in ])lack, a broad ring in white, a Inroad 

 band with seven triangular rays, a narrow band in black, and a broad 

 band in the natural color of the wood. 



Plate 210 is interesting as showing the function of the baskets which 

 were found in the Utah cave. All of them have relation to food. 

 They" are in twilled and coiled weaving and show how in ancient times 

 the basket entered into the service of these agricultural Indians, 



Plate 211 shows a mortar basket of the ancient basket makers in 

 coiled weaving on splint foundation. It is not possible to determine 

 the material of the stitches. It is lo inches in diameter and '4^ inches 

 deep. The interior is coated with meal and the surface of tbe sewing- 

 is worn through from long iise. Mortar baskets are common among 

 the California tribes, both in twined weaving and in coiled work. A 

 specimen quite similar to the one here shown in the U. S. National 

 Museum has a coiled basket top, cemented to the shallow mortar stone 

 underneath l)y means of pitch. The specimens are in the collection of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



Pepper describes four varieties of sandals among the ancient Cliff 

 Dwellers — thin soles in twilled Aveaving from narrow leaves of j'ucca; 

 those made of broad leaves split; a padded variety made from the same 

 leaves shredded; and an exceedingly fine kind, of spun fiber and worked 

 into'clegant patterns. In these last the warp is in two or more layers 

 or plies, so that the body is thick and durable. He quotes Richard 

 Witherill to the effect that while the chamber-building Cliff" Dwellers 

 wove the sandal with pointed toes and a jog or step a few inches from 

 the toe, those of the Basket Makers were square in front. McLoyd 

 and Graham " assert that square-toed sandals were made by the people 

 that inhabited the underground rooms, since they are found only with 



Guide Leaflet, No. 6, of American IMuseum of Natural History, New York. 



