NO. 7 



SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY WELTFISH 



II 



of the specimen in the Hazzard Collection in that the " standing-part " 

 of the fastening stitch, instead of being inserted under the wrapping 

 of the completed course of coiling below, is set between two wrappings 

 and put through the foundation of the completed course of coiling 



Fig. 6. — Sifter coiling, on two-rod-and-bundle-triangular foundation, with 

 noninterlocking stitches. Type found in Canyon de Chelly (variant of type B). 



below ; in wrapping around the " standing-part " of the fastening 

 stitch, the thread is wrapped twice instead of once ; and finally the fas- 

 tening stitches are not made in alternate order, but one directly above 

 the other so that they appear as radial lines on the sides. 



Fig. 7. — Sifter coiling, type B : Hazzard collection. 



The twill-plaiting technique is found in yucca-ring baskets in over- 

 2-under-2 weave. A typical specimen ' has a concentric diamond 

 pattern (fig. 4). Another has a plain diagonal twilled design.'' A third 

 specimen is jar-shaped, was probably made from the mouth to the 

 bottom without closing the bottom, and has a false bottom of bunched 

 yucca leaves fastened together by twining.' 



^ B.M. No. 11942. 



'^ B.M. No. 11941 ; found with the mummy of a child in White House. A. E. 

 Douglass dates White House 1060- 1275 A. D. 

 'B.M. No. iigi8. 



