118 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ BULL. 65 
examples of it we have, the rows being nearly an inch deep and the 
loops three-quarters of an inch apart. 
Feather and fur cloth—Bits of string wrapped with feathers 
or strips of fur were found in great quantities. The basis is usually 
a medium-weight, two-strand yucca cord one-eighth to one-fourth 
of an inch in diameter. For feather string the plumage of the 
turkey seems to have been used exclusively; when the heavy wing 
and tail feathers were employed the pile was usually stripped away 
from the stiffer part of the quill; small, downy breast feathers were 
used whole. The wrapping was done spirally, the end of one 
feather being held under the first few turns of the one following. 
The finished cord is about the size of the forefinger; a hank of it 
prepared for use is shown in plate 46, d. Fur string is considerably 
less common than that wound with feathers. It is wound with strips 
of the untanned skins of small animals, rabbits predominating; in 
Ruin 6 we found several strips cut to the proper size for wrapping. 
The process of making these cords into robes seems to have been 
to wind a long strand back and forth about a framework until the 
desired size was reached, and then to make the whole fast by means 
of twined crossrows of yucca string. The resultant fabric was 
loosely woven, but must have been light, warm, and soft. Feather- 
cloth robes were probably the usual overgarment and sleeping blan- 
ket, and were very often used as shrouds for the dead. Bits of the 
cord frequently served for sandal ties, pot harness, and other house- 
hold purposes where a strong yet soft ligature was needed. 
Very clear drawings showing the method of preparing feather 
and fur string, and the weaving of garments from them, are given 
by Hough." . 
Work IN SKIN 
This branch of technology is very poorly represented in our col- 
lection from the cliff-houses. We have a few small bits of what is 
apparently deerskin or mountain-sheep hide, and some strips of 
rabbit skin for fur cloth. From Ruin 7 was taken a piece of buffalo 
hide with the hair on; it was found on the top of the ancient rub- 
bish just below the sheep dung, and, therefore, may perhaps be a 
Navaho importation. 
Work 1n Woop 
Processes.—W ork in wood was accomplished by chopping, sawing, 
scraping, and rubbing; traces of all four processes may sometimes 
be observed on a single specimen. For sawing and scraping the 
tools appear to have been unhafted flakes of hard stone with rough 
11914, pp. 71-73 and figs. 148, 149. See also Fewkes, 1909, fig. 25. 
