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A basket-maker cave in Kane County, Utah (1922)

Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan), Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963, Guernsey, Samuel James, 1868-1936 · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 166

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100 BASKET-MAKERS for flimsy carrying bags or cradles; and, when partly worn out, as covering material on the roofs and over the hatchway-open- ings of storage cists. More carefully made mat-like fabrics are shown in pi. lii, liii. The former is a … Fig. 14. — Normal selvage of matting. small, rectangular piece, 7 by 10 inches, consisting of a single three-strand braid of juniper-bark looped back and forth on itself and firmly held by four rows of twined yucca strings, each row having from four to six crossings. The method in which the binding…

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