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dations, there is some reason to believe that uhimately these contigu- 

 ous appearances of the use of such a foundation are in some way 

 historically related. 



In some of the Basket Alaker material there are occasional baskets, as 

 noted, which have a foundation of rod-surrounded-by-fiber (fig. 3) ; 

 namely, close-coiled baskets from Marsh Pass, Kane County, Allan 

 Canyon and the Lower Rio (irande Region, and sifter coiling from 

 Bear Creek and in the Wetherill collection. The close-coiled baskets 

 are in other traits like the Basket Maker — Cliff Dweller complex. 

 From a formal standpoint, this type of foundation can be classified 

 with bundle fcnmdation (fig. 17). Little of historical significance can 

 be drawn from similarities in basket-making technique which are 

 based merely on the use of bimdle-form foundations, since this is the 

 most universally used type of foimdation in coiled basketry in the 

 world. Mechanically, it is the most elementary. The function of the 

 bundle is to give a foundation body through which the sewing stitch 

 can readily pass, binding course to course. 



OXE-Roil-FOUXIIATION CoiLING 



I'rom Canyon de Chelly, Grand (julch. Battle Canyon. Allan 

 Canyon, and in the San Diego collection from southern Utah and 

 the Wetherill collections, there are coiled baskets on a one-rod foun- 

 dation with interlocking stitches (fig. 5). counterclockwise spiral, 

 concave work surface toward the left of the worker. It seems 

 likely that these will prove to have been intrusive ware. In addition, 

 there are two specimens of one-rod coiling, as above, save that the 

 stitches do not interlock (fig. 12). One of these is a complete basket 

 from Lost Canyon : the other is a Wetherill basket from Navaho 

 L'anyon. the walls of which are in one-rod coiling, the rim in two- 

 rod-and-reed-triangular coiling. It is interesting to note that on a 

 basket which, from its other traits is Basket Maker type coiling, the 

 one-rod coiled stitches do not interlock. The stitching of the Lost 

 Canyon basket is unusual in that it has a wrapping of the new founda- 

 tion rod alternating with each regular stitch. 



Unusual Coiled Spfximens 



In the Wetherill material from southern LTah and southwestern 

 Colorado are two trays on a two-rod-and-reed-triangular foundation, 

 apparently of the usual Basket i\Iaker type and texture, but with inter- 

 locking stitches. These are the only examples of coiling other than 

 on a one-rod foundation with interlocking: stitches. 



