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Twill-Plaiting 



Yucca-ring baskets (fig. 4) and twill-plaited baskets of that type 

 are found in Marsh Pass Cliff Dweller material, and occur also at 

 Betatakin, Canyon del Muerto, Canyon de Chelly, Grand Gulch, 

 Butler Canyon, Navaho Canyon, Spruce Tree House, Red Canyon, 

 Colorado River Canyon, Pueblo Bonito, in the southern Utah material 

 of the San Diego Museum, and at Bear Creek on Blue River. Kidder 

 and Guernsey established this type of basket at Marsh Pass as the 

 typical Cliff Dweller product, and there seems reason to believe that 

 the specimens from other localities are to be associated with the same 

 culture horizon. 



Twill-plaited baskets with unfinished bottom were found at Marsh 

 Pass (with Basket Maker material), Canyon del Muerto, Canyon de 

 Chelly, Grand Gulch, and southern Utah (S.D.M.). The Basket 

 Maker associations of the Marsh Pass material suggest that this un 

 finished bottom type is earlier than the Cliff Dweller yucca-ring type. 



From Johnson Canyon, Aztec Ruin, and Sikyatki there is evidence 

 of twill-plaiting which may be baskets, but if so the type can not be 

 determined. 



WiCKERWORK 



VVickervvork has been mentioned in the above treatment as found 

 in Chevlon Ruin (fig. 16) and at Bear Creek on Blue River, in Siky- 

 atki and in the Zuhi "Ancient Pueblo " collection. This wicker tech- 

 nique is the same as modern Hopi and Zuni wickerwork. Prehis- 

 torically, wickerwork is found in Lovelock,* and in modern work in 

 Pomo seedbeaters and Algonquian trinket baskets. 



TwixED Basketry 



Twined basketry is unknown in Basket Maker material. In the 

 above enumeration, twined basketry is referred to from Palatki (figs. 

 14, 15) and in the "Ancient Pueblo " material of Hopi and Zuni. In 

 shapes, technique, and texture this work resembles modern work of 

 Havasupai and Hualapai, and of modern Ute. Except for the evi- 

 dence of shapes, this twined work could also be compared with that 

 of Apache groups. 



' Cf . Anier. Anthrop., vol. 32, pp. 490-491. The statement that wickerwork hi 

 prehistoric material is " found exchisively " in Lovelock Cave is to be considered 

 corrected by the statement in this paper. 



