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Show 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 CaVG and may bC ^^ ^ P Sltl n m 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 15 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. js 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 18 |