NO. 7 SOUTHWESTERN BASKETRY WEI.TFISII 43 



Baskets Showing Combinations of Techniques 



In the foregoing discussion several coexistences of two techniques 

 on the same specimens occur : 



The basket from Navaho Canyon (Mesa Verde) which has walls 

 on a single-rod foundation with a rim made on two-rod-and-reed-tri- 

 angular foundation indicates the contemporaneity of single-rod foun- 

 dation coiling and Basket Maker coiling ; but it should be noted that 

 the one-rod coiling here is without interlocking stitches (fig. u). 

 Single-rod foundation coiling with noninterlocking stitches is unusual, 

 and its distribution sporadic in modern times. In prehistoric material 

 the specimen in question is the only one known to me which is normal 

 single-rod coiling ; the specimen from Lost Canyon has special peculi- 

 arities. In modern work one-rod noninterlocking coiling is limited to 

 a few coiled baskets of the Paviotso Paiute. In the Paviotso work, 

 the absence of interlocking is not a conventional trait of their tech- 

 nique, as in collections of their one-rod coiled baskets interlocking and 

 split stitching are to be found as well as noninterlocking. By contrast, 

 one-rod foundation coiling is generally to be found associated with 

 interlocking stitches (fig. 5). In view of the undoubted Basket Maker 

 type provenience of the prehistoric basket on which this one-rod 

 coiling without interlocking is found, the implication seems to be that 

 when peoples who made Basket Maker type work attempted one-rod 

 coiling, their noninterlocking convention was carried over. This seems 

 to me to support the theory that the one-rod coiled baskets with inter- 

 locking stitches are intrusive where they are found associated with 

 Basket Maker or Clifif Dweller material. 



The basket in sifter coiling of type A (fig. 8) which comes from 

 Grand Gulch has several courses of one-rod foundation coiling with 

 interlocking stitches (fig. 5) around the rim. If, on the basis of the 

 foregoing, the one-rod coiled baskets with interlocking be considered 

 intrusive ware, the sifter baskets of type A must also be considered 

 intrusive. It is of interest in this connection that although sifter 

 coiling of type B (figs. 6, 7, 17) has a wide distribution in the world, 

 being found even in modern Mexican native work, in a specimen 

 from San Salvador, and in characteristic work of Samoa and other 

 places in the South Seas, I know of only one analogy to sifter work of 

 type A, and this is only a partial similarity, viz, basketry made in 

 Tierra del Fuego.' 



The basket in the Wetherill collection from either southern Utah or 

 southwestern Colorado, which is made in Basket Maker type coiling 



^ See Mason, p. 258, fig. 59, and p. 531, fig. 204. 



