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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8/ 



" Lost Canyon " : Five specimens of coiled ware from this locality 

 include two trays and three bowls.' Both trays are Basket Maker type 

 technique on two-rod-and-bundle-triangular foundation (fig. 2) with 

 Stitch measurements 5^ coils, 10 plus stitches per inch. The tray from 

 " ruin in Lost Canyon " is i8i inches in diameter and very shallow ; it 

 has a black band design near the rim. The other from " Deep Canyon- 

 Lost Canyon " is 19^ inches in diameter, 4^ inches deep, with a black 

 horizontal zigzag design ; the foundation of the rim coil consists of 

 two rods and a twisted two-ply cord as the apex of the triangular 

 foundation, instead of a bundle of fiber which is used in the body 

 of the basket. The three bowls include one typical Basket Maker type 

 7| inches in diameter (stitch measurements: 5 coils. 8 stitches per 

 inch) with black band design ; one called " Cliff Dweller " from Lost 

 Canyon in Navaho Canyon with body made in Basket Maker type 

 coiling on a two-rod-and-bundle-triangular foundation ( fig. 2 ) . and a 

 set-in bottom made on a one-rod foundation with interlocking stitches 

 (fig. 5) ; stitch measurements of the body coiling run 10 to 12 stitches. 

 5 coils to the inch ; of the bottom 5 to 6 stitches, 6 rods per inch ; 

 and a third, vertical-walled with bottom missing, on a single-rod 

 foundation with noninterlocking stitches (fig. 12), counter clock- 

 wise spiral, concave work surface, toward the left of the worker, from 

 clifif house. The stitches are successively a wrapping of the new 

 rod alternating with a regular single-rod stitch (which includes both 

 the new rod and the rod of the course below). 



" Colorado River Canyon " : Coiling. — Two bowls and a bottom 

 fragment in Basket Maker type coil on two-rod-and-bundle-triangular 

 foundation (fig. 2). One bowl 7I inches in diameter, 3 inches deep, has 

 a design of black horizontal lines with no apparent plan ; stitch mea- 

 surements are 9 stitches, 5 plus coils per inch, with the workmanshi]) 

 rough and uneven. The other " found in a cave on the Colorado River," 

 diameter of mouth 11 inches, diameter of bottom 5 inches, height 

 5"! inches (stitch measurements: 5 to 6 coils, 10 stitches per inch), 

 has a twisted fiber string near the rim and remnants of pitch on the 

 inside. The bottom fragment " found in a cliff house " is 4^ inches in 

 diameter (stitch measurements: 5 plus coils. 9 stitches per inch). 



Plaiting. — Two yucca-ring baskets include one which has a collar 

 and a design of a double set of concentric squares in black and natural, 

 and another without collar which has a concentric diamond pattern 

 all natural color (fig. 4).' 



' Trays : U.C.M. Nos. 2/3073, 2/3075 ; Bowls : U.C.M. Nos. 2/3074, 2/3067 ; 

 U.P.M., Wetherill No. 13 D. 



'Bowls: U.C.M. No. 2/3069; U.P.iV.f., Wetherill No. 14 D ; fragment U.P.M., 

 Wetherill No. 2 D ; Yucca-ring baskets : U.C.M. Nos. 2/3064, 2/3063. 



