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with a knife, may perhaps have been split open and used for 
mortuary wrappings. The body of a very young infant, discovered 
in Cave II, had almost certainly been interred in a bag. 
Com wirnour Founparion: We have only two examples of this 
technique. One (A-1969) is from the Sayodneechee burial cave; it 
is a badly decayed fragment the size of one’s thumb-nail. The rows 
are close together and the loops are very small; the nature of the 
material is not determinable. The other (A—2325, Cist 3, Cave I) is 
a piece of haircloth rather crudely woven of loosely twisted strings 
of human hair; it is precisely 
similar to the Cliff-dwelling bit 
shown in figure 45 and plate 
46, ¢. 
Woven Banps: These are of 
two varieties—the coarse and the . 
fine. The coarse type, of which we have three specimens from Cave 
T, is made in all cases by lacing back and forth a single string across 
a series of strings laid parallel to each other. This is best explained 
by the diagrammatic drawing (fig. 81). It will be noticed that 
there are seven parallel elements and that the “ binder ” is continuous; 
a decorative effect is introduced by making the central string of 
hair; this contrasts effectively with the dark-yellow apocynum (7?) 
of which the rest of the band is woven. The width is three-eighths 
inch. The other two specimens differ only in detail: one (A—2184) 
is one-half inch wide, has 10 parallel elements forming five loops at 
one end, and is entirely of hair; the other (A-—1836) is five-eighths 
inch wide, 20 inches long, 
and has 16 parallel strands 
of hair; the “binder” is 
apocynum (?). As all 
these objects are fragmen- 
tary, and do not give us 
much evidence as to how 
they were finished off at 
the ends or of their orig- 
inal length, we can not 
tell anything as to their 
use. They might have been headbands, burden straps, or possibly 
cradle carriers. A very similar band is attached to a woven bag in 
the modern Maya collection in the Peabody Museum. 
The finer type, which is represented by one short piece only three- 
eighths inch in width, is of excellent workmanship. The general 
principle of manufacture is the same as in the coarser specimens, v1z, 
parallel elements are held together by a “binder” which crosses 
back and forth and thus holds them together. Again recourse must 
be had to the enlarged drawing (fig. 82) to explain the weave. The 
Fig. 81.—Detail of band. 
Fie. 82.—Detail of narrow band. 
