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ture in all respects, differing decidedly from the other material from 

 the site/ 



The coiling of the charred fragments is made on a three-rod- 

 triangular foundation (the foundation rods are very fine and thin), 

 with noninterlocking stitches (fig. ii) and plain edge. It looks as 

 though the edge might have been sewn with martynia thread. Measure- 

 ments : 6 to 8 coils and 14 stitches per inch. Technically this work is 

 similar to the coiling of Chevlon Ruin and Chaves Pass, as above. 



UPPER GILA REGION ■ 

 Bear Creek on Blue River 



From this site (Montezuma's cave) Hough obtained a large number 

 of baskets.^ There are baskets in close coiling, sifter coiling, and 

 twill-plaiting, and one specimen in an unusual technique — wrapped 

 coiling. Hough also mentions wicker baskets which I have not seen. 



Close coiling. — Six specimens I examined included two bowls about 

 5 inches in diameter and 2 inches in height, one fragment of the neck 

 of a globular basket, one fragmentary bowl rim. and two miniature 

 globular baskets (2^ inches in diameter, i^ inches in height ; i\ inches 

 in diameter, i inch in height).'* In all these specimens, the coiling 

 stitches are noninterlocking and are made on a two-rod-and-bundle- 

 triangular foundation (fig. 2) . The bowls and fragments were worked 

 on the concave work surface toward the left of the worker (fig. la) \ 

 the two miniature globular baskets were worked on the convex surface 

 (inevitable in such globular forms) to the right of the worker — -an 

 anomalous direction of work, which is probably to be explained b}- 

 attributing them to left-handed basket making. The texture of the 

 stitching in the fragments and in the miniatures is very fine, that in 

 the two small bowls, a little coarser ; the range of the measurements 

 is from 7 coils, 23 stitches per inch in one fragment to 4 coils, 10 

 stitches per inch in the coarser bowl. Decoration : one bowl is decor- 

 ated in red and black, the other in black, and the larger miniature 

 globular basket has a dark red decoration. 



Sifter coiling. — Twelve small, possibly miniature, sifter baskets'* 

 (the range of diameters is from 2 inches to 5^ inches) are consistent 



^U.S.N.M. cat. 254596, ace. 49619, o. 296, Fewkes, prehistoric Casa Grande. 



^ Hough, 1907, pp. 50-52 and 24-25. 



'U.S.N.M. Nos. 246130; 246128; 232103; 246156 (cf. Hough, 1914, pi. 17, 

 No. 4) ; 246129 and 232096 (cf. Hough, 1914, pi. 17, Nos. 2 and 5). 



''U.S.N.M. Nos. 246142, 246143, 232089, 246140, 246139, 246134, 246136. 

 24614L 246137. 232087, 246131 ; 246135 (cf. Hough, 1914, pi. 24) ; 246138 (this 



