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percentage of basket-marked sherds " found in association, primarily, 

 with black-on-white pottery/ 



Kidder observes : " Such sherds occur, it is true, in most other 

 black-and-white groups, but they are of the greatest rarity. Here, 

 however, they can be picked up at almost any site. The impressions 

 show that bowls and the lower parts of ollas were often formed in 

 baskets. In these cases the clay was apparently coated on the inside of 

 the basket and pressed down hard enough to render the marks of the 

 weave sharp and clear. The upper parts of ollas were probably con- 

 structed by the regular coiling method. Some bowls, however, seem to 

 have been molded or cast entire in basket forms, as the impression of 

 the weave runs to the rim. The baskets themselves were all of the 

 coiled variety, tray- or bowl-shaped ; the coils measure 4 to 5 mm in 

 breadth and there are about six stitches to the centimeter" ( 15 plus 

 stitches. 5 to 6 coils per inch). 



From the photographed basketr3'-marked sherd, with the accom- 

 panying cast."" the coiling is close work, either on a two-rod-and- 

 bundle-triangular foundation (fig. 2), or on a three-rod-triangular 

 foundation. More probably it is the former, i f it were made on a 

 three-rod-triangular foundation (fig. it), the appearance would 

 probably be more rugose and the depressions between the courses of 

 coiling, deeper. The sherd betrays suggestions of a zigzag design 

 which was made in a heavier thread than the regular sewing thread, as 

 shown by zigzag rows of deeper impressions in the sherd, higher 

 elevations in the cast. 



In my opinion the general texture and finish of the basketry sug- 

 gested by this sherd is decidedly similar to Basket AFaker type work 

 of the finer (Clifif Dweller) grade. 



Lower Rio Grande Region 



Three sites in the Lower Rio Grande Region have \ielded speci- 

 mens of prehistoric basketry. 



SFTi: NEAR LAS CRUCES, N. MEX. 



From a site near f-as Cruces, N. Mex., there are four baskets in 

 the United States National Museum. Some basketry sherds were 

 also found, but no pottery." 



' Kidder, 1915, pp. 413-414, and pi. 14. PI. 14/' shows on the filling-in of 

 the mouth of a broken olla the impression of a twill-plaited mat; see also 

 Kidder's text. p. 426. 



^Kidder, 1915, pi. 14a. From the standpoint of the way the basket was 

 made, the sherd should he examined with the page inverted. 



' I examined these four specimens in the United States National Xfuseum 

 through the courtesy of Dr. Walter Hough. They were obtained in connection 



