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PUEBLO POTTERY AND ZUNI CULTURE-GROWTH. 



at the center of the bottom. A small wisp of fine, flexible grass stems 

 or osiers softened in water was first spirally wrapped a little at one end 



Fig. 503.— Havasnpai boiling-basket. 



with a flat, limber splint of tongh wood, usually willow (see Fig. 504). 

 This wrapped portion was then wound upon itself; the outer coil thus 

 formed (see Fig. 505) being firmly fastened as it progressed to the one 

 already made by passing the splint wrapping of the wisp each time it 

 was wound around the latter through some strands of the contiguous 

 inner coil, with the aid of a bodkin. (See Fig. 506.) The bottom was 



Fig. 504. Fig. 505. Fig. 500. 



Sketches illustrating manufacture of spirally-coiled basketry. 



rounded upward and the sides were made by coiling the wisp higher and 

 higher, first outward, to produce the bulge of the vessel, then inward, 

 to form the tapering upper part and neck, into which the two little twigs 

 or splint loop-eyes were firmly woven. (See again Fig. 503 «.) 



