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lar Ijaskets/ In foundation, most of the baskets are made on a two- 

 rod-and-bundle-triangular foundation (fig. 2), occasional specimens 

 on two-rod-and-reed-triang-ular foundation.' The stitching runs about 

 5 coils and 9 stitches to the inch.'' 



In shape the coiled baskets include trays, bowls, globular baskets, 

 large conical burden baskets, and a number of burden baskets of a 

 different type— with almost vertical walls, flaring somewhat at the 

 mouth, and with bottom and cross-section elliptical. The dimensions 

 of the ellipse are about 3 : i-' 



Designs that occur on these baskets are in black, or in red and 

 black. ^The plaque in the United States National Museum has a 

 beautiful realistic figure of a frog painted in blue on the non-work 

 surface. 



Sifter coiling.— A basket-moulded sherd ' from this site shows in 

 reverse sifter coiling which resembles the Canyon de Chelly speci- 

 men (fig. 6).^ 



Tzt'ill- plaiting. —From this site there is a cylindrical basket of yucca, 

 woven in over-2-under-2 twill-plaiting. At the mouth, the shoulder, 

 and the bottom is a row of twining. The bottom is open, and the 

 strands of yucca from the body are unwoven and lie loosely across the 

 bottom. It'seems probable that the basket was woven from the mouth 

 down.' 



Material of the Pueblo III period " from this site includes a coiled 

 bowl and four yucca-ring baskets. The coiled bowl has almost vertical 

 walls, and is finely stitched in Basket Maker type technique on a two- 



' See above, p. 4. Cf. Amer. Aiithrop., vol. 3-2, P- 386. 



^ For example, the U.S.N.M. plaque, as above. 



' Morris, 1927, includes, pp. I95, 196, photographs of seven trays with the 

 AMNH. numbers. Fig. 43e, P- 196. illustrates the average texture. The 

 other photographed specimens show rather finer stitching than the average ot 

 the coiled work from this site. 



*For example A.M.N.H. Nos. 29.1/8442 and 29.i/«343. All the specimens 



of this type of burden basket were found by Morris at one Basket Maker III 



site, in association with the mummy of a child. 



" Morris, 1927, P- 138, fig. la- . ^ n a ru^u.- 



"B.M. No. I1913, discussed elsewhere in this paper under Canyon de Lhellj • 



^\.M.N.H. No. 29.1/1549- , . ,., . , 



* These baskets were found by E. H. Morris in a burial cist which contained 

 a mummy, pottery of Mesa Verde type, and other objects. The entire con- 

 tents of the burial cist are on exhibit in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. According to the label, "the only ruin in the locality characterized 

 by such pottery is a large pueblo half a mile distant, from which presumably 

 the body was brought for interment. The burial dates from the last ancient 

 occupation of Canyon del ^luerto, probably around 1000 A. D. ' 



