NO. 7 



SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY— WELTFISIT 



4^ coils, 7 Stitches per inch : 4 with 5^ coils, 9 stitches per inch ; one 

 with 6 coils, 10 stitches ; another with 5^ coils, 9 stitches ; and the 

 last two with 5^ coils, 10 stitches, and 5^ coils, 13 stitches per inch. 

 These are all round bowl and tray shapes with the exception of one 

 large burden basket (165285), oval in cross-section, which proba- 

 bly had a pointed bottom. 



Of the two remaining baskets from this locality, one is unusual 

 in shape and weave and is probably of Pueblo III period as indi- 

 cated by the associated artifacts/ It is oblong, indented on the long 

 sides, having something of a guitar shape, the individual coils being 



Fig. 10. — Coiling, with noninterlocking stitches, three-rod-vertical foundation. 



narrowed at the ends and widened at the sides. The walls of the 

 long sides are bent inward at the rim. 



The coiling is of general Basket Maker type : counterclockwise 

 spiral, concave work surface, toward the left of the worker, with 

 noninterlocking stitches ; the foundation is three-rod-vertical, the 

 top rod being thinner than the other two (fig. 10). The rim coil 

 has a foundation of two rods placed side by side. 



The other basket ^ is a deep round bowl made on a one-rod 

 foundation, with interlocking stitches (fig. 5). The spiral is clock- 

 wise, the work surface concave, and the work probably proceeded 

 toward the right of the worker. The decoration is in dark brown 

 bark. 



' F.M.N. H. No. 165274, burial cave no.' i. 

 = F.M.N.H. No. 165294. 



