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Stitches. All the baskets are decorated on the outside, the non-work 

 surface, by painting in colors : black, red and black, red, black and 

 white, red and blue. Two, in addition, are painted all over inside with 

 red. (These two have respectively, outside decoration in red and black, 

 and red and blue, and are both on a multiple-grass foundation.) 



Wrapped coiling. — One small conical basket is made in wrapped 

 coiling similar to the work of Mohave burden baskets; the weaving 

 strands are of basket-thread.^ 



Tivill-plaifiiig. — Three specimens of twill-plaiting " in over-3-un- 

 der-3 weave ; the first is a yucca-ring basket with concentric diamond 

 pattern (fig. 4), the second is a finely woven yucca-ring basket with 



Fig. 18. — Wrapped coiling. 



a square rim ring and diagonal design,' and the third is an oUa-shaped 

 basket with a bottom design of a cross into which are set four series 

 of concentric right-angled elements. This olla shape was made all in 

 one piece, evidently beginning at the center bottom.' 



A twill-plaited specimen of special interest is a small, flat square 

 mat with key pattern." (Compare with Nordcnskiold's plaited l)askets 

 from Mesa Verde, described above.) 



RIO GRANDE REGION 



Pa jARiTO Plateau, N. Mex. 



From the small-house ruins of the Pajarito Plateau there is evidence 

 of a great deal of close coiling and some twill-plaiting which may be 

 mat work. The evidence is in the form of " an extraordinarily high 



'■ Hough, 1907, p. 25, refers to this Mohave type work ; see also Mason, p. 230, 

 fig. 13, and Hough, 1914, p. 88 and fig. 318. 

 "U.S.N.M. Nos. 246159; 246161 ; 246160. 

 '' Hough, 1914, pi. 17, No. T. 

 ■'Hough, 1914, pi. 17, No. 3; also fig. 179. 

 ^ Hough, 1914. pi. 16, No. J. 



