THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH 
colors. The space below the bar and between the wings is a dull 
red-brown, the remainder of the figure being black. These de- 
signs are not equidistant as is generally the case in ancient decora- 
tive work of this region, and the position of one of the figures 
directly below the finished end of the outer coil may point to a 
symbolic relation between the design and the closed or finished 
coil. 
Another decoration, as interesting as it is odd, is shown in 
the fourth basket from the same end of the case. This basket 
Water was found in a cave and may be seen in position in 
fowl the plate on page 5. In this instance the basket 
Design. = covered the head and upper part of the body, the 
remainder being wrapped in a feather-cloth robe. The figures 
shown in this basket, forty-four in number, were evidently made 
to represent ducks or other water-fowl, and they form two lines 
or series (p. 13). All the figures pointing in one direction are 
black; those facing them are dull red, and are raised slightly 
above the others in a horizontal plane. A line of black near the 
rim constitutes the remaining feature of the decoration of this 
basket. In size and material it is practically the same as the 
one just described and the design is similar, in some respects, 
to the fifth basket, which is also decorated with the bird figure. 
In the photograph of this basket shown on page rs it will be 
seen that the designs in the two baskets that have been described 
last are combined in this one. The bird-forms are practically 
Other the same, but the body of the butterfly, if it be one, 
Designs. is represented by one instead of three parts. In the 
former the figure may have been made to represent the butterfly 
just after its emergence from the chrysalis, with the wings ex- 
tended, which would have been a pretty symbolization of the 
new life as applied to the infant, while in the latter the wings 
are folded, and the butterflies, like the birds, are resting. The 
designs, however, may have a cosmic significance, the figures 
typifying the gods of the air and the water. An interesting 
feature of these figures is the antenna-like projection that may 
be noted on both baskets. There is a black coil near the rim 
of the basket; where this ends there are two black stitches on 
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