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fibrous pad. (PL 40, 2.) To complete the weaving, each strand 

 was tied in a single knot under the heel. 



The smaller sandal, woven in the same technique, is a bit cruder 

 and might well be the work of an adolescent. On the border, each 

 leaf was brought forward under-two and reintroduced. The toe 



ends were mostly drawn out on 

 top, intertwined, and left to form a 

 knotty pad. In finishing the heel, 

 one strand was brought squarely 

 across and the others looped about 

 it, half above and half below, after 

 which their ends were clipped. As 

 a final touch, two strips, tied to- 

 gether on the middle left edge, 

 were laced back and forth across 

 the sandal, one to end at the toe; 

 the other at the heel. 



Although our wickerwork sandals 

 (pi. 41, 1-3) present an entirely dif- 

 ferent appearance, one from the 

 other, the method of their manufac- 

 ture was much the same. All are 

 made of yucca. Coarse leaves were 

 looped and tied to form four warp 

 strands ; back and forth across these, 

 over one and under the next, the 

 weft element was woven. This 

 might be narrow yucca leaves (2, 3) 

 or a sort of bast of finely shredded 

 leaves (1). Apparently to bind 

 these weft strands together, strips 

 of the same material were some- 

 times laced through longitudinally 

 between the warps, as in 3. The 

 extreme to which such stitching can 

 go is illustrated by Figure 20. 

 One fragment in the lot is woven of yucca bast over four warp 

 strands of coarse yucca cord.^® 



Basketry. — In our 1917 Betatakin collection, basketry is represented 

 by the two specimens figured in Plate 42 and by several fragments 

 (312394) of similar vessels. The ring basket (1), a very common sort 

 of receptacle among cliff dwellers of the Kayenta district, is woven 

 of trimmed yucca leaves in simple twilled pattern ; that is, each weft 



Figure 20. — Wickerwork sandal with 

 secondary stitching 



1* For an excellent analysis of wickerwork and twilled technique in sandal weaving, 

 see Kidder-Guernsey, 1919, pp. 101-107. 



