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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8/ 



KANE COUNTY 



Culture horizon: Basket Maker II. 



From Kane County, Utah, Nussbaum ' secured 30 basketry speci- 

 mens, which incUided one in sifter coiHng, the rest in close coiling. 



All the specimens in close coiling with one exception are consistently 

 Basket Maker type technique on a two-rod-and-bundle-triangular 

 foundation (fig. 2). One basket in close coiling has a foundation 

 of a rod-surrounded-by-fiber, but in all other respects is consistently 

 Basket Maker type work (fig. 3). 



The basket in sifter coiling is in a unique technique of stitching 

 illustrated in Figure 8. 



BATTLE CANYON (SAN JUAN COUNTY, SOUTHEASTERN UTAH) 



There are 11 coiled baskets from this site in the Field Museum. 

 Nine of these are of Basket Maker type coiling, concave work 

 surface, counterclockwise spiral, worked toward the left of the 



Fig. 9. — Coiling, with noninterlocking stitches ; foundation of a split rod with a 

 strip of yucca placed upon it. (Battle Canyon, southeastern Utah.) 



worker, noninterlocking stitches, with variations in the foundations. 

 Six baskets have the usual two-rod-and-bundle-triangular foun- 

 dation (fig. 2)." one has a two-rod-and-reed (or strip of yucca 

 blade) -triangular foundation,'' and two have an unusual foundation; 

 this consists of a round, rather heavy rod split in two, the flat 

 split surface being placed downward. Upon the upper rounded 

 surface of the rod a strip of yucca ( ?) is placed, through which the 

 stitches are caught (fig. 9).* Stitch measurements are : one basket with 



^ Nussbaum. See also my notes on the material from this site in Amer. 

 Anthrop., vol. 32, pp. 484, 486, 487, 488. 



" F.M.N. H. Nos. 165299, 165293 (found with Basket Maker skull 165294): 

 165296, 165295. 165285 (these last tliree found with Basket Maker mummy of 

 a child 165297) ; 165289 (found containing desiccated mummy of infant 165290). 



•■' F.M.N.H. No, 165302 (found with Basket Maker III mummy of child 



165303). 



* l^'.M.N.H. Nos. 165288. 165292 (both coated with light yellow gum on 

 inside ) . 



