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SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY WELTFISH 



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from a cliff house in Xavaho Canyon. Six of these are coiled haskets, 

 and one is a yucca-ring basket.' 



Coiling. — All the specimens of coiling show nonintcrlocking stitches, 

 counterclockwise spiral with concave work surface, which means a 

 direction of work toward the left of the worker. "^ While there is some 

 variation in foundations, all but two of the variations agree in having 

 triangular form of three elements. 



The specimens from Oak Tree House and Spruce Tree House, the 

 hopper from Cliff Palace, one Wetherill basket from Navaho Canyon, 

 and probably the Nordenskiold material have two-rod-and-bundle- 

 triangular foundation (fig. 2). (Stitch measurements: the Oak Tree 



Fig. II. 

 dation. 



-Coiling, with nonintcrlocking stitches on a three-rod-triangular foun- 



House specimen 5 to 6 coils, 22 stitches per inch ; the Wetherill speci- 

 men 5 plus coils, 14 stitches per inch.) 



Three Wetherill specimens from Navaho Canyon have a foundation 

 of two-rod-and-reed-triangular. (Measurements: 4-^- coils, ii to 12 

 stitches per inch.) One W'etherill Navaho Canyon specimen and ap- 

 parently the unfinished plaque from Cliff Palace have three-rod- 

 triangular foundation (fig. it). (Measurements: Wetherill basket, 

 3 coils, 7 stitches per inch.) Exceptional are one of the above 

 Wetherill specimens, which in addition to work on a two-rod-and- 

 reed-triangular foundation on the rim, has walls made on a single-rod 

 foundation with the stitches nonintcrlocking (fig. 12) ; and a little 

 oblong-shaped basket, also Wetherill, which is made on a soft rod 

 which has been split by the sewing stitches passing through it" 

 (measurements : 6 plus coils, 10 stitches per inch). 



'U.P.M., Wetherill Nos. B 51, 55, 54, 42; U.C.M. Nos. 2/3635, -V3068, 2/3063. 

 ' Statements for Spruce Tree House and Cliff Palace specimens figured by 

 Fewkes, 1909, are based on his pictures; I have not seen tlie specimens. 

 'U.P.M., Wetherill Nos. B 51 and B 42. 



