12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8/ 



SouTHERx Utah Sites 

 GRAND GULCH 



Considerable basketry and fragments have been found in Grand 

 Gulch. The material I have seen from this site is in the American 

 Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the American Indian, 

 Heye Foundation. The basketry includes w^ork in close coiling, sifter 

 coiling, and twill-plaiting techniques. 



Close coiling. — Seventeen complete baskets and a number of basket- 

 bottoms consistently show the following technique : Concave work sur- 

 face, counterclockwise spiral, worked toward the left of the worker, 

 noninterlocking stitches, on a two-rod-and-bundle-triangular founda- 

 tion (Basket Maker type, figs, la, 2).' 



The shapes of these baskets include trays, deeper round bowls, 

 bowls with flat bottoms and straight slanting walls, baskets with flat 

 bottoms and straight slanting walls which are oval in cross-section, 

 large conical burden baskets, and globular baskets. Decorations are in 

 red and black or in all black. These baskets are all coarse in texture, 

 of the Basket Maker type of texture (with foundation elements ap- 

 pearing between the stitches) rather than of the Cliff Dweller texture. 



Three baskets from Grand Gulch, of which two are small bowls and 

 one a globular form, are made on a one-rod foundation with inter- 

 locking stitches (fig. 5) : the liowls are made on the concave work 

 surface, have a counterclockwise spiral, and were made toward the 

 left of the worker (fig. la) : the globular basket was made on the 

 convex work surface and has a clockwise spiral : it was also made 

 toward the left of the worker (fig. i&)." 



Sifter coiling. — One basket in sifter coiling comes from this site. 

 Around the rim are several courses of coiling on a one-rod foundation 

 with interlocking stitches ; in technical traits this one-rod coiling is 

 identical with that of the two bowls above mentioned, which are on 

 one-rod foundation. The sifter technique is identical with that in a 

 sifter basket from Kane County. Utah (fig. 8).' 



Tzuill-plaiting. — Six baskets examined from this site, in over-2- 

 under-2 weave, fall into two groups : 



^ Mason, pis. 205-211, and Pepper, 1902, both picture many of the Grand 

 Gulch specimens which are in the American Museum of Natural History. 

 The museum numbers are: A.M.N.H. No. H-12264, 12270, 12273, 12275, 12276, 

 12279, 12315, 13133. 13161, 13505. 13507, 13509, 13511, 13515, 13526, 13527, 

 13928, 13960. 

 ^M.A.L, H.F. Nos. 5/5350, 5/5352; A.M.N.H. No. H/i3955- 

 ^ Now in the American Museum of Natural History. See Amer. Anthrop., 

 vol. 32; pp. 484 and 488, fig. i8(7. See also Mason, p. 257 and pi. 31. 



