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Room 24, a yucca-ring basket (p. 96). 



Room 25, fragments and a whole coiled basket " of the three-rod coiled 

 variety"; and a yucca-ring basket with the concentric diamond pattern (p. 107). 



Room 32, "one very large basket" (coiled?) (p. 162). 



Room 33, a cylindrical basket, 3 inches in diameter and 6 inches in length, 

 covered with turquoise mosaic (coiled?). 



Another cylindrical basket, decorated with turquoise and shell beads. (4 cm 

 in diameter and 6 cm in length) (pp. 164 and 169, fig. 71 : pp. 174-175). 



Room 62, a number of large coiled baskets fovind covering pockets containing 

 broken potsherds. * 



I have not seen the specimens referred to in the above. I read 

 Pepper's " two-rod-coiled type " as two-rud-and-bundle-triangular 

 foundation (fig. 2), and his " three-rod-coiled variety " as three-rod- 

 triangular foundation (fig. 11). Thus we have evidence from Pueblo 

 Bonito of coiled basketry, possibly of Basket Maker type, with two 

 types of foundation, and of yucca-ring baskets.' 



Aztec Ruin, N. Mex (.\ximas .wu La Plata Region) 



Culture horizon: Great Pueblo period (late Pueblo 111). 



Morris obtained specimens and other evidence from Aztec indi- 

 cating that two types of basketry techniques w^ere in use there : coiling 

 and plaiting. There is also a type of basketlike container.' The coiled 

 baskets were of three shapes : plaques, bowls, and cylindrical forms. 

 The plaiting included two " carelessly made plaited baskets," and a 

 plaited rush bag. From the illustration the bag is in twill-plaiting in 

 over-2-under-2 weave. 



Morris refers to basketlike containers, of which 15 were found. 

 The foundation is a hoop of wood, bound with yucca, to which a lacing 

 of yucca strips is attached to form a loose meshwork within which is 

 a linins: of husks." 



'- Pepper, 1920, pp. 234-235, and p. 227, fig. 100. 



* Mr. Judd showed me miniature coiled baskets in cylindrical, oblong, and 

 cradle-basket forms, which he has not yet described in print. These are on 

 two-rod-and-bundle-triangular foundation, in technical aspects analogous to the 

 work of the Basket Alaker type site (Marsh Pass). They have a false-braid 

 edge. This edging is referred to by Pepper, above, as " herringbone " on the 

 two-rod-and-bundle coiled basket from room 2. Elsewhere in this paper I have 

 compared the shape of Judd's miniature cradle basket to others (under Cradle 

 House, Navaho National Alonument). 



' Morris, 1919b, pp. 54, 56, 57, figs. 32 and 35. A. E. Douglass dates Aztec 

 as about 20 years later than Pueblo Bonito, namely about 11 50 A. D. 



* Morris, 1919b, fig. 35, and p. 57 ; see also reference in this paper under 

 Tohnson Canvon. 



