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in all technical aspects except foundation. They are worked on the 

 concave work surface to the left of the worker (counterclockwise 

 spiral) with noninterlocking stitches. The stitch technique is what I 

 have called type B sifter coiling, which includes also specimens from 

 Canyon de Chelly (fig. 6) and from the Hazzard collection (fig. 7). 

 Foundations are of three types: three baskets are on two-rod-and- 

 bundle-triangular (fig. 2) ; six are on multiple grass (fig. 17) ; and 

 three are on rod-surrounded-by-bundle (fig. 3). The thread is 

 wrapped about the course of coiling in work and at intervals is fas- 

 tened to the course below. There are two ways of treating the fas- 

 tening stitch : either the stitch is caught in the foundation of the course 

 below the one in work (fig. 17) (analogous to Canyon de Chelly speci- 

 men), or the stitch passes underneath the lower course (analogous to 



]'"[(■.. 17. — Sifter coiling on a mnltiple-grass foundation. (T3'pe found at Bear 

 Creek on Blue River; variant of type B.) 



the Hazzard collection specimen) . This latter method of fastening the 

 stitch occurs in the three specimens with rod-surrounded-by-bundle 

 foundation ; in the remaining nine with two-rod-and-bundle-triangular 

 and with multiple-grass foundations, the stitch is caught in the foun- 

 dation of the lower course. This variety of type B sifter coiling differs 

 from the other two kinds in that the fastening stitch is not bound 

 around itself between the courses. It differs further from the Canyon 

 de Chelly variety in that instead of the fastening stitches being made 

 one directly above the other, they are fastened in alternate order in the 

 successive courses (see p. 11 and fig. 7). 



In all the baskets the starting knot is so made as to leave a large 

 hole in the center bottom ; all are finished oft' with a few false-braid 



specimen is fastened with thread to a small stick, umbrella-fashion; of. Hough, 

 1914. fig. 317). Hough, 1907, p. 25, refers to these sifter baskets as "lazy 

 stitch." 



