NO. 7 SOUTHWESTERN BASKETR>' WELTFISH I3 



Two globular baskets made of yucca leaves are of the type that is 

 probably made from the mouth down, leaving the bottom open ; one 

 of these has a small mat fastened by twining to the bottom opening 

 and a twill-plaited collar attached.^ 



Four baskets of yucca made from the center bottom up (similar in 

 this to the yucca-ring baskets) include three bowl shapes with 

 slightly constricted necks. At the mouth, they are finished by bending 

 the edge over a rod and fastening with a row of twining. All have 

 concentric diamond patterns (fig. 4). They differ from yucca-ring 

 baskets in that the body is full and the neck constricted, so that they 

 must have been shaped while weaving as yucca-ring baskets never 



Fig. 8. — Sifter coiling, type A : Kane County. 



are. The fourth basket made of yucca leaves is of a form with body 

 and two legs suggesting a cradle basket.'' 



There is also a yucca-ring basket from Grand Gulch now in the 

 American Museum of Natural History." 



WHITE CANYON 



I have seen a basket in the Museum of the American Indian, from 

 a cave at this location. It is a coiled tray of Basket Maker technique 

 in every particular, with a zigzag design in black'' (measurements: 

 6 coils, 13 stitches per inch). 



' A.M.N. H. No. H/13533, M.A.I., H.F. No. 5/5351. Baskets of this type with 

 bottom unwoven are mentioned in this paper under Marsh Pass. Canyon del 

 Muerto, Canyon de Chelly, and the San Diego collection from southern Utah. 



- M.A.I., H.F. Nos. 5/5353. 5/5354, 5/5357, 5/i79o. On the cradle basket see 

 in this paper under Cradle House. 



^ The basket was found filled with beans. It is thus very doubtful that this 

 is a basket of Basket Maker manufacture. Cf. Guernsey and Kidder, p. 63, 

 footnote I, who refer to Pepper, p. 23, 1902. Mason, pi. 210, upper picture, center 

 of lower row, illustrates this basket. 



* M.A.T.. H.F. No. 8/3822. 



