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upon by any basket making tribe to allow for any ingenious de- 

 ductions as to intended realism on the one hand or unconscious 

 borrowing on the other. 



Other basketry types. — An entirely different form of basket from 

 those previously mentioned is a pear-shaped basket from the San 

 Bias coast, " karba tukka " (Tule), 16.6 cm. (6.5 in.) in height and 

 19 cm. (7.5 in.) in width at greatest diameter (Cat. No. 327,569, 

 U.S.N.M., pi. 23, No. 7). The shape of the basket resembles the 

 Tule pottery cooking vessel with elongated base; a combination of 

 basketry technique is employed, involving simple cross or checker- 

 board weave, in the narrow base. From this beginning, after turn- 

 ing the corner, the splints radiate at right angles and are deflected 

 upward so as to form the stakes or outline framework of the pear- 

 shaped basket and to serve as the warp or passive element over 

 which and under which the weft or horizontal filaments are passed, 

 to again become the active element at the upper margin, where they 

 are gathered in series of two strands each into a tightly wrapped 

 bundle or rim one centimeter in diameter. Additional stakes are 

 inserted part way up the conical slope of the lower half of the walls 

 so that the checkerboard technique of under one over one is retained. 

 The greatest diameter is a point one third the distance from the 

 margin to the base of the basket. The margin, which is only two- 

 thirds the greatest diameter, is composed of vertical filaments 

 wrapped together with additional filaments in diagonally crossed 

 openwork roll. Alternate employment of the split side of filaments 

 in white color with the outer surface in natural color — the one hori- 

 zontally and the other vertically placed — produces an ornamental 

 effect. Use of natural outer and split surfaces alternating in the 

 horizontal and vertical filaments produces ornamental effect. The 

 greatest diameter is near the top. The marginal rim is constructed 

 to two-thirds the size of the greatest diameter. This rim is made 

 up of a coil composed of the vertical filaments wrapped together 

 with additional filaments in crossed openwork diagonal roll. A 

 Tule basket with handle, "karba tukka" (Tule), 14 cm. (5.5 in.) 

 in height and 11.5 cm. (4.5 in.) top diameter, made from a very 

 tough fiber called " sarki " (Tule), is constructed with a wicker 

 base, that is, with radiate sticks employed as the foundation warp 

 or stiffener for the lateral weft filaments. On the side walls of the 

 basket are inserted additional vertical filaments enough to change 

 the technique into a simple checkerboard weave. The top marginal 

 diameter is somewhat less than that at the base. Six horizontal 

 strands dyed black, in series of two strands each, encircle the walls 

 of the basket horizontally. The warp strands are tucked into a 

 tightly wrapped marginal roll that serves as a protective rim and 



