NO. 7 



SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY WELTFISH 



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MANGOS CANYON 



In tlie Wetherill collections there is one basket marked " From 

 Sandal Clifif House, Mancos Canyon " in double coiling on a two-rod- 

 and-bundle-vertical foundation (fig. 13) ; the stitching runs three 

 coils, 15 stitches to the inch.' 



From the description of the contents of the Wetherill collections as 

 " from the Clifif Houses in ^lancos and tributary canyons of south- 

 western Colorado," I judge that several other Wetherill specimens 

 with canyon locations are to be associated with this region : 



" Lake Canyon " : a tray in Basket oMaker type coiling but with 

 two-rod-and-reed-triangular foundation (measurements: 4 coils, 12 



Fir;. 13. — Coiling, with noiiinterlocking stitclics, on a two-rod-and-lmndle- 

 vertical foundation. 



stitches per inch) and a design in black, from a cave ; and a basket 

 in sifter coiling of the Kane County type from a ruin (fig. 8).'' In 

 this sifter basket, it is not clear which is the work surface ; if it were 

 worked as usual on the concave surface, the direction of work is 

 toward the right, in which trait it dififers from other sifters of this 

 type. (In descriptive terms, this sifter has a clockwise spiral.) 



" Red Canyon " : One bowl from a clifif house is in Basket Maker 

 type coiling (fig. 2) in all details, with a design in black (measure- 

 ments : 6 coils, II stitches per inch). One yucca-ring basket is in over- 

 3-under-3 weave ; the pattern is concentric diamond in black and 

 natural (fig. 4) ; there is a plaited collar fastened to the outer rim." 



^U.P.M., Wetherill No. 50 B; cf. Amer. Anthrop., vol. 32, p. 485. 

 ' U.P.M., Wetherill No. 20 D, and Wetherill No. 4 D. 

 ' U.P.M., Wetherill No. 9 U ; U.C.M.. No. 3/3071. 



