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foundation. with noninterlocking stitches, and is apparently worked 

 toward the left of the worker on the concave work surface. The stitch 

 measurements are 4 pkis coils and 12 stitches per inch. At the finish 

 there are about 2 inches of false braid stitching. The design, prac- 

 tically identical with the Fewkes and Pennsylvania specimens, is in 

 red and black. 



Two other specimens of this type are referred to by Cummings.' 

 One, " found in a pot hole in one of the gulches of Sagi at Sosi 

 Canyon," the other from a room in Bat-woman House. 



Besides these specimens I have seen miniature coiled baskets of 

 this shape and workmanship ; the texture of the stitching and founda- 

 tion was much finer. Evidently such a miniature is a totir de force. 

 These miniatures I saw through the courtesy of N. M. Judd of the 

 United States National Museum ; I understand they are part of his 

 material from Pueblo Bonito. 



Interesting in this connection is also a specimen in the Museum of 

 the American Indian, Heye Foundation, which is from a cave in 

 Grand Gulch, Utah.'" It is a miniature basket, like a toy, made in 

 twill-plaiting in under-2-over-2 weave, in a shape that suggests a 

 cradle basket ; that is, it has a body and two legs. 



Canyon del Muerto 



Culture horizons : Basket Maker III, Post Basket Maker, and 

 Pueblo III. 



E. H. Morris found large numbers of baskets at several sites in 

 Canyon del Muerto in Arizona. His collections are now in the Ameri- 

 can jMuseum of Natural History. In addition, there is the large 

 beautiful plaque in the United States National Museum.' 



In the basketry from the earlier horizons, two techniques are found, 

 close coiling and twill-plaiting. There is evidence in the pottery 

 remains from the site of the presence of a second type of coiling there, 

 sifter coiling. 



Close coiling. — All the coiled basketry from this site is decidedly 

 uniform in texture and technique. The technique is Basket Maker 

 type (figs. I and 2), namely, with counterclockwise spiral, made on 

 the concave work surface toward the left of the worker, with non- 

 interlocking stitches. There are differences in the handling of globu- 



^Cummings, 1910, illustration p. 34; and Cummings, 1915, pp. 281-282. 



" M.A.I., H.F. No. 5/1790. Cf. elsewhere in this paper under Grand Gulch. 



^ U.S.N.M. No. 231776. It is a flat, round, coiled plaque secured by the 

 Bureau of Indian Affairs; Culin, 24th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., includes 

 a photograph of this basket as frontispiece. 



