PLATE XXXIX. 



(Mason. Ba.sket-woil;.) 



Fig. 08. Coiled sacrert mca] tray of the Mokis. A l)uiicb of yucca leaf stems, or of 

 grass, varying from ^ inch to 1 hich in diaincter, is sewed in a continuous coil 

 by means of slender threads of yucca fiber about -jVth inch in width, and 

 very nniform throughout. Each stitch of the progressing coil is caught into 

 a stitch of the coil beneath with perfect regularity, forming a dish looking 

 like a great worm coiled np. The ornamentation is in yellow and brown. 

 The first spots interiorly contain from 4 to 6 stitches. On the next turn a 

 series is arranged with relation to these. By the simple management of 

 this device hundreds of patterns are worked out. ' Collected in Arfzona by 

 J. W. Powell. 



Fk;. 09. One s(|uan' inch of Fig. 68, showing the method of administration. 



