PRELIMINARY CLASSIFICATION OF PREHISTORIC 

 SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY ' 



By gene WELTFISH 

 Fellozv of the National Research Cotiiicil, igjo-igs^ 



CONTENTS PAGE 



Introduction 2 



Abbreviations 3 



The San Juan area 3 



Sites in Navaho National Monument 3 



Marsh Pass, Ariz., and associated sites 3 



Betatakin 6 



Cradle House 7 



Canyon del Muerto 8 



Canyon de Chelly lo 



Southern Utah sites 12 



Grand Gulch I2 



White Canyon 13 



Kane County 14 



Battle Canyon (San Juan County, southeastern Utah) 14 



Allan Canj'on (San Juan County, southeastern Utah) 16 



Butler Canyon (San Juan County, southeastern Utah ) 16 



Alesa Verde sites 16 



Mesa Verde proper 16 



Mancos Canyon 19 



Johnson Canyon 21 



Piedra District, southwestern Colorado 21 



Pueblo Bonito, N. Mex 21 



Aztec Ruin, N. Mex. (Animas and La Plata region) 22 



Miscellaneous collections 23 



Southern Utah (San Diego Museum collection) 23 



Southern Utah and southwestern Colorado (Wetherill. and 



McLloyd and Graham collections) 24 



Palatki, central Arizona 25 



Little Colorado River region, Arizona 26 



Chaves Pass 26 



Chevlon Ruin 27 



' Acknowledgment is due the Council for Research in the Humanities, Columbia 



University, whose grant made possible a great part of the museum study on 



which this treatment is based ; the work has been completed as Fellow of the 

 National Research Council. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 87, No. 7 



