THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH 



herring-bone stitch was used. This stitch is employed by. the 

 modern Pah Utes, Navajos, Supais and Pimas, but with these 

 tribes the entire rim is finished in this manner. The design on 

 this basket, as shown on page 12, is a very unusual one. Mr. T. 



OPEN-WORK, OR SIFTER " BASKET 



F. Barnes of Los Angeles, California, has suggested that it may 

 be a conventionalized representation of butterflies and Butterfly 

 that the basket was probably a ceremonial one, used Designs, 

 when a child was born, the butterfly being symbolical of the new 

 life. In verification of this supposition, the entry in Wetherill's 

 original catalogue shows that this basket was found over the 

 " partially mummified remains of a child." The design is in two 



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