THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH 
herring-bone stitch was used. This stitch is employed by the 
modern Pah Utes, Navajos, Supais and Pimas, but with these 
tribes the entire rim is finished in this manner. The design on 
this basket, as shown on page 12, is a very unusual one. Mr. T. 
OPEN-WORK, OR “SIFTER *? BASKET 
F. Barnes of Los Angeles, California, has suggested that it may 
be a conventionalized representation of butterflies and Butterfly 
that the basket was probably a ceremonial one, used _ Designs. 
when a child was born, the butterfly being symbolical of the new 
life. In verification of this supposition, the entry in Wetherill’s 
original catalogue shows that this basket was found over the 
“partially mummified remains of a child.’ The design is in two 
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