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inner side, done in yucca fiber. This process was repeated upon the 

 loops thus constituted until the center of the wheel was reac-hed. It 

 is in effect a kind of coiled work in which the foundation is absent. 

 Collected by »Ianies Stevenson. 



Di". J. Walter Fewkes was so fortunate as to recover from the 

 Chevlon I'uin, 15 miles from Winslow and in sight of the station 

 Hardy on the Santa Fe Railroad, fragments of ancient l)ask(4ry, 

 shown in the acconipanj'ing- plates. The custom of burying baskets 

 with the dead is still preserved in the Tusa^-an towns, and from the 

 specimens here figured, it has ))een inherited from ancient times. 

 Baskets, says Fewkes, are not now made at the east mesa, and the 

 craft is contined to the middle mesa and Oraibi. 



Fig. 191. 



ancient basketry gaming wheel. 



Pueblo Indians, New Mexico. 



Collected by .James Stevenson. 



The wicker baskets from several gi-aves at Chevlon were identical 

 with those made to-day in the pueblo of Oraibi. Some of these spec- 

 imens were painted on the surface a green color with malachite, or 

 blue with azurite. In other examples the small stems had been 

 stained before they were woven. Plate 21!t represents a segment from 

 a wicker basket made from the stems of O/u'i/sothaninus graveolens. 

 The warp consists of small l)undles of stems; the weft, of the same 

 material barked and smoothed down, in some places dyed. The inter- 

 esting feature of the specimen is the increasing of the lumiber of 

 warp elements as the l)asket erdargcs. At first in the drawing there 

 are live ])undles of stems; about 2 inches lower down the number is 



