NO. 7 SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY WELTFISII 7 



bottom/ the other two are bowls/ All are in Basket Maker type 

 coiling on two-rod-and-bundle-triangular foundation (fig. 2). No 

 design is evident. The stitch measurements are similar, one being 

 5 coils, 12 stitches to the inch, another 5 coils, 11 stitches, and the 

 third 4^ coils, 1 1 stitches. 



A yucca-ring basket collected by Fewkes at this site is made in 

 over-2-under-2 weave with a concentric diamond pattern in one color." 



CRADLE HOUSE 



This ruin was named after the find there by W. B. Douglass of a 

 Clifl: Dweller cradle, with which was associated a pair of infant 

 sandals.* The basket is of burden-basket form with a deep cleft in 

 the bottom ; it is made in Basket Maker type coiling on a two-rod- 

 and-bundle triangular foundation with noninterlocking stitches. 



Fewkes, 1911a, mentions another specimen, practically identical 

 with the above, which was found by E. B. Wallace in San Juan 

 County, Utah, not far from the Colorado River. This, according to 

 Fewkes, finally reached the Field Museum of Natural History. I find 

 that this is the specimen which is now in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania Museum.' I have not seen the basket figured by P'ewkes, but 

 I have seen the Pennsylvania specimen and another in the San Diego 

 Museum.' These are so nearly identical that Fewkes' comment would 

 apply, " that the two (three) might have been made by the same 

 woman." I have examined both specimens in detail. They are so 

 much alike that it is sufficient to give the facts on the San Diego basket. 



The San Diego basket comes from " a cave in southern Utah." It is 

 about in the same condition as the one figured by Fewkes, the design 

 somewhat more faded. The measurements are: 21 inches high (14^ 

 inches from rim to leg, 6J inches for the legs), and the oval mouth 

 is 9 by 6 inches.^ It is coiled on a two-rod-and-bundle-triangular 



'U.S.N.M. No. 270259. 



^U.S.N.M. No. 312393: I examined this specimen through the courtesy of 

 N. M. Judd; U.S.N.M. No. 270258, Fewkes. 



^U.S.N.M. No. 270252, Fewkes. 



* Fewkes, 1911a, pp. 29, 30; pis. 19, 20, and 21. 



"The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, has published a post- 

 card photograph of this specimen. Farabee, p. 202, says : " The basket was 

 found in a cliff house in Moki Canyon, San Juan County, Utah, near the 

 Colorado line. In 1904 it was exhibited at the World's Fair, St. Louis. There- 

 after it was on loan at the Field Museum until finally purchased by the Uni- 

 versity Museum in 1908." 



" S.D.M. No. 4759- 



' Compare Fewkes, 191 la, pi. 19, '" Dimensions : length 22 inches, breadth 

 9 inches ; diameter 6 inches." 



