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The impressions of basketwork appear very clearly under 
those of tile network in R 7, B 12, B ti and B 15 (figs. i6 ? 
17, 18 and 19), and, in every case, seem to be of Type 1 of 
weaving. All the ten ex ampies are marked internally. 
THE PROBABEE APPLICATION OF THE TEXTILES 
From known examples of pottery bearing impressions of 
textiles it can be gatliered that basketwork was used in two 
ways, in fíat pieces or mats on which to stand the vessels 
during or immediately after modelling, donbtless witli the 
object of preventing the adhesión of eartli or sand to the wet 
bases, or in the form of baskets, within or over which the 
clav was moulded to the desired shape. These baskets were 
no doubt destroyed in the process of firing, except in those 
cases where their shape was such as to permit of the removal 
of the vessel after the clay liad shrunk in drying f 1 ). Coarse 
cloths and nets, such as those woven from the fibre of the 
chaguar ( 2 3 * ), were 110 doubt also used, botli as a protection 
from the ground and also for the support and handling of the 
completed but unfired articles. Native potters of the present 
day use nets ( :i ), cloths ('), or even dried grass ( 5 ), to prevent 
contact witli the eartli. The practice of placing the pottery 011 
mats of clotli or wickerwork was apparently coninion, but 
evidences of the fashioning of the entire vessel in or over a 
basket are rare. 
(1) Algunos vasos ceremoniales , etc., fig. 4; Antiquités, etc., Vol. I, Píate II, fig. 3; Ex- 
ploraciones arqueológicas , etc., fig. 71; CüSHtNO, Frank TIamii.ton. A Study of Pueblo Pot- 
tery as illusiraiive of Zuñí Culture Growlh. In tile Fourtk Animal Report of the Burean of 
fil/tnology, 1882-83, Washington, 18S6, p. 501; IIor.MES, Wu.i.iam H. Aboriginal Pottery 
°f the Easiern United States. I11 tlic Tsventieth Animal lleport 0/ the Burean of American 
Ethnologv , 1898-99, Washington, 1903, fig. 31; Holmes, William II. Use of Textiles in 
Pottery Maktng and Embellishrnent I11 American Anthropologist New Series), vol. 3, no. 3, 
New York, 1901, Píate VII, fig. a. 
(2) One of the Bromeliaceae, from whose leaves the natives obtain a strong fibre, 
witli which they manufacture core! for bags, nets etc. 
(3) OuriiS, Félix K. La cerámica Chiriguana . In Revista del Musco de la Plata, vol. 
XVI, 211 1 Series III, Buenos Aires, 1909, p. 122. 
(.f) Antiquite's, etc. vol. II, p. 479. 
(s) Information com municate l to me by the Revd. Canon H. T. Morrey Jones. 
