MORRIS] THE CLIFF-RUINS OF JOHNSON CANYON 179 
MATTING 
The collection contains several pieces of rush matting, the largest 
of which are shown in plate 49, 6. The mats are beautifully plaited 
and the ends of the strands are turned under and back braided to 
form a heavy, durable border. 
Matting of another variety was made by lacing the stems of rushes 
together with fine yucca cords. The resulting fabric is much thicker 
than the plaited mats, and can easily be made into a roll. The 
fragment shown in plate 46, 2, was found beneath a shelving rock 
in Ruin No. 3, and appears to have been part of the wrapping: of a 
body. 
FEATHER CLOTH 
Feather-cloth jackets seem to have been much worn by the people 
of Johnson Canyon, to judge from the fragments which are strewn 
about through the débris (pl. 49, a). The down of feathers was 
stripped from the quills, then wrapped and bound around yucea cords, 
which were woyen into a thick and warm, though rather cumber- 
some, garment. From a disturbed grave in Ruin No. 7 was taken 
part of a moccasin made from the same material. The weaving of 
the jackets and the manner in which they were worn are described 
in detail and figured by Dr. Hough.? 
CLOTH 
Although no large pieces were recovered, a shred of finely woven 
cotton cloth found in Ruin No. 3 indicates that this textile was not 
unknown to the inhabitants of Johnson Canyon. 
BASKETS 
Plate 47, c, shows part of an extremely well-made basket, which 
resembles in every particular the beautiful specimens figured by 
Nordenskiéld. An entire basket of this type when impregnated 
with moisture would hold water as well as an ordinary porous jar. 
SANDALS 
The sandals consist without exception of a flat sole of plaited 
yucca with a more or less complex lacing of thongs to pass over the 
foot. Some of them are excellently made, the closely woven strands 
being one-sixteenth to one-twelfth of an inch across (pl. 51, a), 
while others are loosely constructed of rough strips of yucca as much 
1Op. cit., p. 72, figs. 149-150. 
