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are no indications of heel cords, but in a few instances they are 

 present. Where this is the case, the heel cords consist of several 

 loops of shredded leaves which pass around the back of the heel 

 of the wearer and connect the side strings (fig. 6). 



In general it may be said that this form of sandal is one which 

 belongs in that section of the Southwest. Similar specimens have 

 been reported from Silver City,'' New Mexico ; the writer has seen 

 a number in various collections from caves in the vicinity of Van 

 Horn. Texas, some distance east of El Paso ; and two of the same 

 type, in the collections of the National Museum,^ were found in a 

 cave near Lava, New Mexico, in 1902 and presented to the museum 

 shortly afterwards. Dr. Walter Hough found a specimen in 1905, 

 during the course of his investigations at Tularosa Cave in western 

 New Mexico, which is comparable to those from El Paso, although 

 the yucca leaves in the former were partially shredded.^ Another of 

 the same type is figured by Lumholtz in his Unknown Mexico. This 

 specimen was obtained during the course of investigations carried on 

 in Cave A^alley, northwestern Chihuahua.' Only one example of the 

 type has been noted in collections coming from regions farther north 

 in the Pueblo area. The latter is in the private collection of Mr. J. A. 

 Jeancon at Nateso Pueblo, Indian Hills, Colorado. Mr. Jeancon 

 found it in a cave in southeastern Utah in 1908, when he was con- 

 ducting explorations in the Montezuma Creek section. A type very 

 suggestive of the El Paso form but varying somewhat in the technique 

 of its manufacture was found in northeastern Arizona by Kidder and 

 Guernsey during their earlier explorations. They found a number of 

 sandals in a small cliff house on Laguna Creek which have the general 

 appearance of the ones from El Paso but which differ from them in 

 that they did not have the figure 8 weave in the weft and that they 

 had only a single leaf in the warp.° 



The second form of sandal had four warp strands of single leaves. 

 The warps were tied at the heel and toe, and the weft leaves were 



^ ]\Iason, O. T., Primitive Travel and Transportation. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 1894, Washington, 1896, p. 358, pi. 7, No. 3. U. S. Nat. AIus. Cat. No. 456ro. 



'U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 215428. 



^ Hough, W., Culture of the Ancient Pueblos of the Upper Gila River region, 

 New Mexico and Arizona, Bull. 87, U. S. Nat. Mus., Washington, 1914, p. 84, 

 fig. 173, a- U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 246688. 



■* Lumholtz, Carl, Unknown Mexico, Scribners, 1902, Vol. i, pp. 68-69. 



° Kidder, A. V., and Guernsey. S. J., Archeological Explorations in North- 

 eastern Arizona. Bull. 65, Bur. Amer. Ethnol., Washington, 1919, p. 103, fig. T,y, 



