SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



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Tzi'Ul- plaiting. — The yucca-ring l)asket in the Wetherill collections, 

 which is allocated to Navaho Canyon, has a zigzag design carried out 

 in Strands of two colors, in under-3-over-3, weave. After the basket 

 was completed, a small plaited collar woven under-i-over-i was 

 fastened around the rim.' Two of the Nordenskiold baskets from 

 Spruce Tree House are of this same type with meander or scroll 

 designs carried out in two colors, having a small plaited collar fastened 

 around the rim.' The two others are woven in one color, the specimen 

 from Spruce Tree House having a meander pattern, that from Ruin 9 

 a concentric diamond pattern ( fig. 4) . Similar to these, with scroll 



Fig. 12. — Coiling, with noninterlocking stitches, on a single-rod foundation. 

 (This variant of single-rod coiling is of rare occurrence.) 



pattern and collar about the rim, is an unallocated yucca- ring basket in 

 the Field Museum ; the basket is in over-4-under-4 weave and is 10 

 inches in diameter. 



Shapes. — All the coiled Wetherill specimens (except the one oblong 

 basket, which is similar to small modern pottery paint cups) as well 

 as the Cliff Palace basketry hopper, are bowl and cylindrical shapes ; 

 the bowls are similar in size and shape. Of the two cylindrical shapes, 

 one is shallow and one deep.' The Nordenskiold coiled material con- 

 sists of a bowl, a deep cylindrical basket, and a circular lid. 



' U.C.M. No. 2/3065. There are other specimens of yucca-ring baskets in 

 the Wetherill collections which agree in all the above particulars (although 

 designs vary) with the one described, but these are not allocated. See especially 

 U.C.M. Nos. 3/3071 and 2/3064. In addition, Kidder and Guernsey, p. 109, refer 

 to several Wetherill baskets in two colors as in the Colorado State Museum at 

 Denver. 



^ Nordenskiold, pi. 44, i and 2. 



'U.P.M., Wetherill No. 42, shallow; U.C.M. No. 2/3635. 



