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Design Disposal
As was mentioned at the outset, all but 5 of the 78 coiled baskets
show some attempt at decoration. The various types of deco~ation
fall rather easily into three . groups, according· to the disposal of the
pattern. As one looks at the basket, side view, the design may be
placed vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
The vertical disposal often consists of a column of interpenetrating .
isosceles triang'les, which are repeated at stated intervals (pl. 125e).
The other motifs are rather nondescript (see pls. 120c and 121d).
Horizontal decoration is of two types. One relatively frequent
type, occurring in 31 of the 73 cases of decorated ware, consists of a
series of simple horizontal bands which are continued wholly or partly
down the sides. rrhe stripes may be continuous, or they may be
bunched in definite units with a gap between. The stripe unit so
formed comprises several bands, usually three, but frequently two.
The number of bands composing a unit is normally constant on a
single basket.
When there is but a sing-le stripe unit, it tends to be placed part
way down the side and not at the rim. Of those baskets with several
band series, about 50 per cent have three such units. When there is
more than one group, one set ordinarily occurs at the rim.
A more elaborate type of horizontal decoration, of which there
are nine examples, consists of definite patterns horizontally arranged.
These are usually horizontal bands with a step or some such break
( pls. 120b, 123 f) . A horizontal pattern is sometimes formed by filling
the space between two simple bands with a series of recurrent rectan-
gular figures ( fig. 2e) .
Diagonally placed patterns can be subdivided into the simple
diagon~J, the intersecting diagonal, and the diamond diagonal. The
first type is more or less self-explanatory. The design proceeds
diagonally across the side of the basket and consequently is spiral,
relative to the center bottom (fig. 21). This sort of diagonal often
consists of various forms of a stepped diagonal line, or of super-
imposed, overlapping quadrilaterals (pl. 121a). The simple diagonal
arrangement occurs ten times.
In the intersecting diagonal, the pattern proceeds diagonally across
the side of the basket, intersecting at the top and bottom with a