WUPATKI PUEBLO: A STUDY IN CULTURAL FUSION AND ...

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stitches; a small bit of weft-wrap openwork; five examples of
twilled weave; and one tapestry tump line. Natural fiber is
used with cotton only as the yucca warps of the tump line*
The one complete fabric reported is a breech clout, and thus
it can only be assumed that the loom used at Wupatki was like
th© vertical Southwestern looms used in contemporaneous sites.
Some of the narrow fabrics and the short wood battens and shed
rods found at Wupatki also suggest the use of a belt loom. Dye
colors represented included brown, tan, red, blue, black, and
yellow (Kent 1957 * )•
Basketweave Cloth
In basketweave, wefts pass over and under single warps.
Thirty-two such fragments were found at Wupatki. Both warps
and wefts are visible, and often can be differentiated. The
average stitch count for Southwestern textiles is about 10 warps
and 9 wefts per cm., and the Wupatki average is 10 warps and 8
wefts per cm. One Wupatki specimen, however, has about 19 warps,
or 53 threads per cm., and represents one of the most finely
woven textiles found In the Southwest (Kent 1957* **90). The
fragments, as a whole, range from very small examples to a nearly
complete breech clout, 61.8 cm. long, and 13.3 cm. wide (Kent
1957« 6?7-78).
Undyed Fragments. Thirteen pieces are of plain white
cotton, three with selvages (described at end of chapter) of