500 ANNUAL REPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1916. 



among people who had not adopted the loom. Many fragments of 

 this cloth have been preserved by contact with metal objects, or have 

 been found charred on the altars, or with cremated human remains. 

 Some of this cloth is of a remarkably fine texture, for weaving 

 done principally with the fingers unaided by mechanical devices. 



Plate 13, a^c, shows small sections of twined-woven cloth at the 

 right, at the left enlarged drawings of each which illustrate more 

 clearly the relation of the warp and woof cords. Other examples of 

 this weaving are shown in g-l. The wavelike arrangement of the 

 warp cords in i is very unusual. The twined woof cords in all of the 

 above specimens are relatively like those shown in the sectional 

 sketch in i. In / we have an example of the simple in-and-out 

 weave ; this is probably a piece of the upper portion of a bag. This 

 type of weaving was sometimes followed in this region in making 

 much finer cloth. What appear to be fragments of netted bags are 

 illustrated at the right in d and e. Enlarged drawings appear at 

 the left, showing the stitch. This type of netting is found among 

 the northern Athapascans, in California, in the Pueblo region, and 

 in northern Mexico, but is rare in other sections north of Mexico. 



