NO. 



SOUTH VVKSTERN BASKETRY WF.I.TFISH 



27 



Chevlon Ruin ' 



Fewkes collected from this site 12 fragments and a large part of a 

 broken basket, all in coiling. I examined the broken basket in the 

 United States National Museum.' 



The coiling is made on a three-rod-triangular foundation (fig. 11), 

 counterclockwise spiral, concave work surface, toward the left of 

 the worker (fig. la), with noninterlocking stitches (fig. 11). The 

 foundation rods are very thin and fine. The basket is all in black 

 with a fret pattern in natural thread : reconstructed, it is a shallow 



Fig. i6.^Wickerwork. 



jjasket with flat bottom and vertical walls, diameter of bottom, 3! 

 inches, height of walls about I4 inches. 



The specimens from this site are technically similar to those from 

 Chaves Pass. 



A specimen of wickerwork in every respect like modern Hopi 

 wicker work of Third Mesa was recovered by Fewkes from Chevlon 

 Ruin (fig. 16)." 



LOWER GILA REGION 



C.\SA Grande 



From Casa Grande there are a large number of charred fragments 

 of coiled basketry in the United States National Museum. In the 

 Museum is also one coiled tray from this site, with a black meander 

 design in martynia thread, which is unquestionably of Pima manufac- 



' Chevlon Ruin is 15 miles from Winslow. 



' U.S.N.M. No. 157915 ; see also J. W. Fewkes, 22nd x\nn. Rep. Bur. Amer. 

 Ethnol., pt. I, p. 99 and fig. 63. The same basket is figured in Mason, pi. 220, 

 and p. 509. 



^ Mason, pi. 219 and p. 508. 



