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Coyote Cave Fabric
AD 1000–1600
Coahuila, Mexico

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The zigzag design, so prominent here, is seen on some of the earliest textiles found so far in the North American Southwest.

The two figures below appear to be wearing clothing woven with zigzag designs. They are depicted in paintings on rock that are associated with a Basketmaker archaeological site in northeastern Arizona. Archaeologists estimate that the paintings are at least 1,500 years old.

Basketmaker Pictographs, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 65, Archaeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona, Alfred Vincent Kidder and Samuel J. Guernsey, 1919, pp. 197-198.

 
 
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