KIDDER-GUERNSEY] ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ARIZONA EVE 
deep. Two loops of string were attached to one side; one is’ still 
in place, the other has come loose. The bases of the leaves are held 
together by twined woven strings. In the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York (cat. no. H-14251, “ southeastern 
Utah”) there is the exact duplicate of this little contrivance, even 
to the two loops of string; Mr. John Wetherill possesses a similar 
specimen, probably from Sagi Canyon. All three evidently belong 
to a well-defined type, as to the use of which we can offer no 
suggestion. 
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From the number of fragments that occur in the rubbish of the 
cliff-houses it would appear that mats must have been in very 
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Fic. 41.—Rush-mat selvage. 
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common use. Although no complete specimen was recovered, large 
parts of one were found on the floor of a room in Ruin 2 (pl. 44, f). 
All our specimens are made of cat-tail rushes and all are woven in 
the same way—twilled work, over two under two. Each mat has 
a twilled border or selvage (pl. 44, a-e), 1 inch to 3 inches wide, 
woven at a different angle from the body elements and made up of 
every other one of them. The chief interest in these mats lies in 
the working of the borders. As may be seen in the diagrammatic 
drawings (figs. 41, 42), every other strand is cut off at the edge of 
the body. The ends are held in place by a pair of twined rushes 
(a-a, fig. 41). The projecting or uncut ends are plaited together 
for a short distance, turned at the edge, and brought back to the 
body where they are tucked under the strands that emerge at that 
place, or are more securely fastened by being turned back again 
