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BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE WORK DONE BY CHARLES ROZAIRE IN ANALYZING THE BASKETRY FROM 8 CAVES IN THE LAKE WINHEMUCCA AREA, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA An analysis has been made of over 130 pieces of basketry and matting from eight caves in the Lake Winnemucca area, Pershing County, Nevada, The names of the caves are Stick, Owl, Horse, Crypt, Chimney, Cowbone, Guano, and Fishbone, Prior to the examination of the collection, patches of plastic wood were applied to the specimens and a catalogue number was written on each. The information for every piece has been placed on file cards, from which a preliminary sum­mary has been written. Photographs have been taken of the significant and interesting items in the collection. The assemblage is comprised of materials woven in three basic techniques, namely, in order of importance, twining, colling, and plaiting. As a whole they correspond to collec­tions from other northern Basin shelters, but include several distinctive features of their own. Twined materials are the most numerous with about 70 ex­amples, They are classified on the basis of two major tech­niques - plain twining and twill twining. The latter tech­nique is found in stiff basketry and soft tule bags. For plain twining a distinction is made between matting and basketry. All matting is warp face, while plain twined basketry iacludes examples of both openwork and closework. Coiled basketry Is second In importance with *+8 examples. The most numerous item made by coiling Is the parching tray. Other coiled products include serving trays, large bowl-shaped