NO. 7 SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY — -WELTFISII 4I 



Two coiled bowls from Battle Canyon which are Basket Maker type 

 coiling in all other respects are made on a foundation of half a heavy 

 rod with a strip of yucca placed upon it, through which the stitches 

 are caught (fig. 9). 



Two baskets are unusual in that they have foundations of vertical 

 form. One is the oblong basket from Battle Canyon which has a three- 

 rod-vertical foundation (fig. 10). although the rim coil is made on a 

 foundation of two rods placed side by side ; the other is a basket from 

 Sandal Clifif House, Mancos Canyon, made in double coiling on a two- 

 rod-and-bundle vertical foundation (fig. 13). 



Sifter Coiling 



This technique occurs in two types which I have called A and B. 

 Type A (fig. 8) is found without variation in a specimen from Grand 

 Gulch, one from Kane County, and one from Lake Canyon. Type B 

 occurs in three variants. The Hazzard collection specimen is from the 

 Wetherill material, and comes from southern Utah or southwestern 

 Colorado (fig. 7). A simpler type, without binding stitch around the 

 " standing-part," is found in 12 specimens from Bear Creek on Blue 

 River (fig. 17). A type with double binding around the " standing- 

 part " is found in the Canyon de Chelly material (fig. 6) ; the speci- 

 men differs from the Hazzard collection specimen in that instead of 

 the bindings alternating in the successive rows, they are found one 

 above the other, forming vertical lines which radiate from the center. 

 The Blue River specimens show both these methods of placing the 

 fastening stitch. On a basket-marked sherd from Canyon del Muerto 

 there is evidence of sifter coiling which resembles the basket from 

 Canvon de Chelly. As sifter coiling is a unique technique in North 

 America, unknown in modern work save for the " grasshopper " bas- 

 kets of the Yokuts,^ and as the two types mentioned are not mechanic- 

 ally related, these two distributions are of importance historically.' 



In foundation, type A is consistently made on a single-rod. Type B 

 occurs with three foundations : two-rod-and-bundle-triangular (fig. 2), 

 rod-surrounded-by-fiber (fig. 3), and bundle-of -grass (fig. 17). 

 Thus type B, on the basis of foundations, is to be associated with 

 Basket Maker close coiling, while type A affiliates rather with the one- 

 rod coiling with interlocking stitches which occurs sporadically 



(figs-5>8)- 



' Mason, pi. 196 ; p. 480, tigs. 172 and 173. 



^I have seen modern basketry in shops made in type B sifter coiling said 

 to have been made bv Mexican natives. 



