. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 81.—Detail of band. with a knife, may perhaps have been split open and used for mortuary wrappings. The body of a very young infant, discovered in Cave II, had almost certainly been interred in a bag. Coil without Foundation: We have only two examples of this technique. One (A-1969) is from the Sayodneechee burial cave; it is a badly decayed fragment the size of one's thumb-nail. The rows are close together and the loops are very small; the nature of the material is not determinable. The other (A-2325, Cist 3, Cave I) is a piece of haircloth rather crudely woven of
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 81.—Detail of band. with a knife, may perhaps have been split open and used for mortuary wrappings. The body of a very young infant, discovered in Cave II, had almost certainly been interred in a bag. Coil without Foundation: We have only two examples of this technique. One (A-1969) is from the Sayodneechee burial cave; it is a badly decayed fragment the size of one's thumb-nail. The rows are close together and the loops are very small; the nature of the material is not determinable. The other (A-2325, Cist 3, Cave I) is a piece of haircloth rather crudely woven of loosely twisted strings of human hair; it is precisely similar to the Cliff-dwelling bit shown in figure 45 and plate 46, c. Woven Bands : These are of two varieties—the coarse and the fine. The coarse type, of wdiicli we have three specimens from Cave I, is made in all cases by lacing back and forth a single string across a series of strings laid parallel to each other. This is best explained by the diagrammatic drawing (fig. 81). It will be noticed that there are seven parallel elements and that the " binder " is continuous; a decorative effect is introduced by making the central string of hair; this contrasts effectively with the dark-yellow apocynum (?) of which the rest of the band is woven. The width is three-eighths inch. The other two specimens differ only in detail: one (A-2184) is one-half inch wide, has 10 parallel elements forming five loops at one end, and is entirely of hair; the other (A-1836) is five-eighths inch wide, 20 inches long, and has 16 parallel strands of hair; the "binder" is apocynum (?). As all these objects are fragmen- tary, and do not give us much evidence as to how they were finished off at the ends or of their orig- inal length, we can not tell anything as to their use. They might have been headbands, burden straps, or possibly cradle carriers. A very similar band is attached to a woven bag in the modern Maj^a collection
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