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tively deeper and more bowl-lke than the larger. Our collection 
contains none of the latter, although we have fragments of many 
(pl. 76, ag); for their shape and general appearance reference 
should be had to the illustrations in Pepper’s paper. 
A second form, represented by small bits only, is the Jarge carry- 
ing basket with flaring sides and small, pointed bottom. . 
Less common are baskets with restricted orifices. These little 
pieces are very neatly made (pl. 76, 7, »), and seem to have served 
as trinket holders and workbaskets, for specimen 7 contained the 
three-pendant necklace described in the section on personal orna- 
ments (fig. 72, @) and n (see also pl. 77) held pieces of bird skin, 
a leather bag, and a basketry disk. 
The most interesting piece of basketry found was taken from Cave 
It (pl. 78). It has an elongated base, oval in cross section; the 
upper part flares out and becomes round; it is constricted again at 
the top, and the orifice is small.?- There does not seem to have been 
a neck, but there is some evidence that there was once a string- 
hinged cover. On opposite sides, just below the point of greatest 
diameter, are pairs of carrying loops made by twisting into a heavy 
cord eight or ten 2-strand human-hair strings. The entire inner sur- 
face of the basket is thickly pitched with pifion gum, and the same 
material has been daubed on such parts of the exterior as had begun 
to wear through. A design of small stepped units may be faintly 
made out on the upper curve. 
There can be little doubt that this specimen is a water-carrying 
basket. The pitched interior is really sufficient proof, but the 
identification is further borne out by the peculiar shape, which per- 
mits the piece to fit snugly against the shoulders of the bearer, and 
by the incurved top, which would effectually have prevented the 
contents from splasing out during transportation. 
A number of small basketry plaques or disks were taken from the 
cists and rubbish (pl. 76, 7, /), and one was found in the basket shown 
in plate 77. These appear to be beginnings of baskets, as all are 
clearly unfinished and all conform closely in shape and weave to the 
bottoms of one or another of the types described above. While the 
majority are round, there are a few which, by their oval shape and 
sharply rising sides, indicate that they were intended to be completed 
in some form similar to the water carrier. 
MarTrinG 
We do not know whether or not rush mats such as have been 
described from the cliff-houses (p. 111) were used by the Basket 
1See Pepper, 1902, p. 8. 
2 Dimensions: Total height 17 inches, greatest diameter 14% inches, orifice 44 inches. 
