NO. 7 SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY WELTFISH 21 



JOHNSON CANYON 



In cliff dwellings in Johnson Canyon, east of the Mancos River in 

 southwestern Colorado, Morris found fragments of a fine closely 

 coiled basket, a fragment of a twill-plaited basket, and a netlike 

 container made of yucca leaves fastened on a wooden ring/ The 

 coiled fragment, from the figure, has a two-rod-and-bundle-triangular 

 foundation, noninterlocking stitches, and was worked toward the left 

 of the worker (fig. 2). 



PIEDRA DISTRICT (SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO) 



In 1928 Roberts found here in a pit house a small charred fragment 

 of coiling, about 2 inches square, which is now in the United States 

 National Museum.'' The pit houses according to Roberts are Pueblo I 

 period. 



The coiling is Basket jMaker type, two-rod-and-bundle-triangular 

 foundation, with noninterlocking stitches (fig. 2). The stitches are 

 sewn quite far apart so that the foundation material is exposed 

 between them ; in which characteristic it resembles Basket Maker 

 rather than Cliff Dweller. In connection with the coarseness of tex- 

 ture of this basketry, it is interesting to note Kidder's comments on 

 the early transitional or peripheral character of this site ; '' and that 

 type A house is postulated as earliest at this site. 



Pueblo Boxito, N. Mex.^ 



Culture horizon : Pueblo III. 



In Pepper's excavations at Pueblo Bonito, he found basketry 

 remains in two techniques, close coiling and twill-plaiting.' In refer- 

 ence to Pepper's ground plan the distribution of the finds was as 

 shown below. The page numbers refer to Pepper, 1920. 



Room 2, two coiled baskets, one a meal or gambling tray, " two-rod coil 

 type and has a herringbone edge on the angle of the rim." It feet in diameter 

 (p. 36). 



Room 13, fragment of a bowl with evidence of red pigment on both sur- 

 faces (p. 69). 



'Morris, 1919a. Basketry fragment, pi. 47 f ; plaiting, pi. 52a; netted container, 

 pi. 52&. I have noted pi. 52b as resembling the basketlike containers described 

 and figured by Morris, igigb, fig. 35 and p. 57. 



^ U.S.N.M. No. 348328. See Roberts, pi. 3 and pp. 22 and 74. The specimen 

 was found in his "A" village, 5-E 2 (house and room identification). 



^ Kidder, 1931, pp. 126-127. 



■* Date: (According to A. E. Douglass) 919 (earliest beam cut) to 1130 A. D. 

 (latest beam cut). 



' Pepper, 1920. The ground plan is fig. 155. 



