104 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 65 
Ruin 7) are 18 in number, made of 9 looped yucea cords, their open 
ends at the heel. The warp pattern, as shown in figure 38, is an elabo- 
rate one, the elements being laid out in the form of the foot with the 
same little jog on the outer side that was seen in the better grade of 
plaited sandals (pl. 86, a). The framework of the jog is formed by 
a single warp-loop. The complicated tie at the heel, where all the - 
warp-strands are made fast, is accomplished by bringing down the 
central strands, turning them back (i. e., toward the toe) and coupling 
each one with the descending part of the strand next to it. These 
couples (descending strand and turned-back end of the next one) 
are held together by weaving, over and back, the outer strands, which 
are unraveled into their two component twists of fiber, each twist 
becoming a separate element and being joined with its mate to form 
a pair of twined weft elements. In the drawing this terminal tie of 
the warp is magnified out of its proper proportions in order to show 
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the method of insertion of each of its strands. In the original sandal 
the tie is not over one-half inch deep. The first true weft element of 
the softer (apocynum?) fiber (counting from the heel) is woven over 
all the warps and pulled tight; as a result of this, the outer warp- 
strands on each side being somewhat longer than the central ones, 
the heel and adjacent sides of the sandal are slightly drawn up, 
making a sort of cup-shaped pucker that must have fitted snugly 
about the heel of the wearer. This can not be shown in the diagram- 
matic drawing, but appears in the photograph (pl. 39, d). 
The above description of the terminal fastenings of the warp was 
worked out by pulling to pieces a fragmentary example. The only 
other sandal of this type in our collection is finished off in the same 
general way, but has some minor differences which can not be studied, 
so tight is the weave, without destroying the specimen. We must 
therefore wait for more material before we can make further notes 
on this interesting tie. 
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