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Fabrics and Basketry

A number of scanty remains of fabrics and basketry (Fig. 4a-e)
were recovered from the excavation. These were for the most part
evidenced by their prints in the adobe or in the soil, but a few were
recovered in their original state although invariably very much
decayed.

Basketry. A print of a basket was found in Room 10 which
preserved a sufficient amount of the imprint to make certain of
the type of basket represented. The technique is twilled and the basket
when entire must have been some ten inches in diameter at the rim.
The material is evidently stripped and flattened yucca leaves which
were bent over around a wooden or stick hoop for a rim. The form of
the basket is a shallow and rather flattened bowl.

Several shards from the Pueblo II level showed evidence of coiled
baskets on their exteriors. This coiling was in many cases extremely

fine, a few specimens exhibiting twelve to fifteen coils to the inch. The
coils themselves were evidently done on a rod foundation, possibly
willow, and the sewing splints appeared to be split roots of some
variety. No indication as to the form of these baskets was present.

Matting. Abundant examples of twilled matting were present in
the excavation especially in connection with the various burials. This
matting was, for the most part, manufactured from some broad-bladed,
parallel-veined grass of long leaf. Large sections of this matting occurred
over and under all of the burials and also on the floors of rooms.
In at least one instance, matting was laid on the roof to supplement the
reeds. It is impossible to decide what species of grass is represented
by this common article. This twilled matting is usually an over two,
under two, or over three, under three, technique. At the edges the
stems are turned under and tied.

The print of a small section of matting in Room 8 showed
a plain-woven checkerboard, under one, over one, technique. This was
manufactured from the same material as the foregoing.

The matting of Equisetum and sacaton grass will be discussed at
some length in the section on vegetable remains. This type was evidently
used for all common matting purposes as well as for roof covering.
Its occurrence in connection with burials was noted in only one
instance.

Fabrics. Fabric evidence was extremely scanty at Tseh So but
two examples were secured which may give some idea of the skill of
the inhabitants in this art. An example of open twining work was
found beneath the floor in Room 20, id est, in the Pueblo I section.
This, a small fragment of some six inches in each dimension, was
constructed on a warp of single flattened yucca fibre with a woof
of double twisted fibre of the same material spaced an eighth of an
inch apart. The general effect produced by this weave is a comparatively
fine square-meshed netting which may possibly have been a
portion of a bag or some such receptacle.

Another fragment of fabric, from the roof of Room 16, may
or may not be a piece of that above mentioned. The material is
the same but the weave has been alternated so as to produce checkerboard
patterns on one side of the material. Insomuch as but a small
piece of this last material was secured, it is impossible to state as to its
function or exact appearance.

Table III
MAMMAL AND BIRD REMAINS

                                                                     

Room location	Meleagris gallopavo	Aquila chrysaetos	Neotoma mexicana fallax	Cynomys gunnisoni zuñiensis	Lepus californicus texianus	Sylvilagus auduboni warreni	Sylvilagus nuttalli pinetis	Thomomys aureus	Canis familiaris	Antilocapra americana	Odocoileus hemionus	Lynx baileyi	Peromyscus maniculatus rufinus	Ovis canadensis texianus	Taxidea taxus berlandieri
1	4			9	16	26					3
2	19		8	22	30	41	2	1		2	5
3			1		13	9	1		3	4	6
4	15			19	44	28	2		1/2	5	12/4	1		1	1
5							1							1
6				2		1			4
7						3								2
8	3			22	62	38	2	1			2
9											6
10				2						3
11							1								1
12					5				1
13	20	1		6	36	61	5		3		4		1 skull	1
14			2					2
15	1				2					2
16			2			3	2	1
17	6				1	8					1
18			2
19	1					4				/2
20					4	3			/4	/2	/3			/3
21	6				7	8				3	5
22	15			6	13	20				5	23/17
23											1				1
24
Kiva 1	complete & 14					2
2	complete & 3												1	Horn & 2
3	complete & 7								complete & 3
4	2 almost complete & 1
Sub Struct. 1								1	6		3	complete
2					4				11		9
3									1		7
Trench	2			3	20	14			16	3	17
	82	1	15	91	265	279	16	6	55	31	77	1	2	11	3
	.087	.001	.016	.096	.293	.297	.017	.006	.058	.033	.082	.001	.002	.011	.003