PLATE XXXIX. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



FIG. 68. Coiled sacred meal tray of the Mokis. A bunch of yucca leaf stems, or of 

 grass, varying from inch to 1 inch in diameter, is sewed in a continuous coil 

 by means of slender threads of yucca fiber about iV^ n i ncn i n width, and 

 very uniform throughout. Each stitch of the progressing coil is caught into 

 a stitch of the coil beneath with perfect regularity, forming a dish looking 

 like a great worm coiled up. The ornamentation is in yellow and brown. 

 The first spots interiorly contain from 4 to 6 stitches. On the next turn a 

 series is arranged with relation to these. By the simple management of 

 this device hundreds of patterns are worked out. Collected in Arizona by 

 J. W. Powell. 



FIG. 69. One square inch of Fig. 68, showing the method of administration. 



