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Conlagc. There are many exanii)les of rope and twine 

 usually composed of two twisted strands. Aprons 

 consist of bunches of such twine gathered at the waist 

 where they were attached by a string or girdle and left 

 loose and flowing at the lower end. Such twine was 

 also made into openwork nets, into the twists of w^hich 

 the quills of feathers were caught making a feather 

 blanket, probably of the kind which were still being 

 worn in the Southwest in Coronado's time. There are 

 many specimens of twine made of human hair. 



Bags and Cloth. There are a number of bags in the 

 collection, several of them being in nearly perfect condi- 

 tion. They are made without seams by twining with 

 two strands of yucca fiber thread. The w^arp is of the 

 same material resulting in a pliable and originally a very 

 durable bag. The decorations are in the form of 

 horizontal bands; one of the bags has a red stripe be- 

 tween two black ones, repeated four times with wide un- 

 decorated spaces between. Another has alternating red 

 and gra}^ bands each of which is composed of alternate 

 stitches of colored and uncolored material to which a 

 border composed of small rectangles is added. Both 

 the rectangles and the speckled appearance of the 

 bands are produced by using one colored strand and one 

 uncolored one so that they appear alternately on either 

 side. One of the best preserved specimens was found 

 full of corn meal. It has a long fringe around the top 

 produced by allowing the ends of the warp strands to 

 extend for a considerable distance. Such bags were 

 probably made largely without the aid of mechanical 



