PLATE XLIX. 



(Maeon. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 81. Jai-sbaped coiled basket from ZuBi Indians. This is a very beautiful speci- 

 men of coiled ware for this region, in shape, regularity of stitch, aud or- 

 namentation in black. Upon the authority of explorers the text is made 

 to say that the pottery-making Indians ar«not good basket-makers. This 

 specimen leoks as though it might have come from California. Collected 

 in New Mexico by J. W. Powell, in 1874. 



Fig. 82. One square inch of 81, showing the use of the stiip of liber for chinking, 

 and the alternation of white and black stitches. 



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