PLATE XXXIX. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 68. Coiled sacred meal tray of the Molds. A bunch of yucca leaf stems, or of 

 grass, varying from $ inch to 1 ineli in diameter, is sewed in a continuous coil 

 by means of slender threads of yucca fiber about ^gth inch in width, and 

 very uniform throughout. Each stitch of the progressing coil is caught into 

 a stitch of the coil beneath with perfect regularity, forming a dish looking 

 like a great worm coiled up. The ornamentation is in yellow and brown. 

 The first spots interiorly contain from 4 to 6 stitches. On the next turn a 

 series is arranged with relation to these. By the simple management of 

 this device hundreds of patterns are worked out. Collected in Arizona by 

 J. W. Powell. 



Flfi. (>9. One square inch of Fig. 68, showing the method of administration. 



