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shallow and of so open a weave that it seems probable that they were 
used as winnowing trays. 
Coiled basketry.—Although no whole pieces were obtained, a few 
fragments of shallow, tray-like coiled baskets were collected in the 
rubbish heaps of the cliff-houses. All the specimens belong to a type 
not included by Mason in his classification,! which may be called 
“two rod and bundle.” It is analogous to Mason’s two rod and 
splint and three rod types. Another difference between these speci- 
mens and any noted by Mason is that the sewing elements do not 
interlock. This feature will be more fully discussed in the section on 
Basket Maker coiled baskets 
(p. 169). 
The foundation of the coil 
consists of two willow rods of 
equal size placed side by side; 
above them is a bundle of 
fibrous material. The sewing 
splints from below inclose all 
three elements. The splints 
from the next coil above are 
sewn through the bundle, 
usually taking in about half 
of it (for illustrations, see 
fig. 80 in the Basket Maker 
BIN section). The bundles, being 
soft, pack down between the 
Hid \ paired rods and so fill up the 
~ interstices between the rods of 
one coil and those of the next 
that the resultant weave is ex- 
traordinarily tight. The best examples would certainly be water- 
tight without coating of any kind. The finer specimens average 5 
coils and 18 stitches to the inch; a coarse one has 4 to 44 coils and 
8 to 10 stitches. In all cases the foundation is entirely concealed. 
Materials employed in manufacture, so far as we can tell, are: 
For rods, willow, peeled or unpeeled; for bundles, strips of yucca 
leaf partly shredded into fiber; for sewing strands, fine splints of 
wood, probably willow or sumac. A coil of these splints prepared 
for use was found in Ruin 2 (A-1223). 
A little basket, made from a single yucca plant, was taken from 
the rubbish on the upper level of Ruin 5. The stalk is cut off just 
below the origin of the leaves, which latter are woven together, as 
shown in figure 40, to form a cornucopia-shaped receptacle 24 inches 
Fig. 40.—Yuccea-plant basket. 
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