INDIAN COSTUMES KRIEGER 641 



basket. The materials are: Dog hair, goat hair, and down. This 

 is a rare and vahiable specimen and is in excellent condition. Di- 

 mensions: Upper border, 46 inches; lower, 41 inches; width, 45 

 inches ; width of fringe, 7 inches ; width of border, 5 inches. On the 

 upper corners are tassels and on the borders are thongs of buckskin 

 for securing the wrap. This blanket may be the No. 675 of the 

 George Gibbs collection described by him as " a cape or shawl of goat 

 and dog hair." 



Another blanket cape from the Salish Indians collected by Lieut. 

 G. K. Warren, United States Army (Cat. No. 1894, U. S.^N. M.) 

 (pi. 12, A), is a wrap for the body. It is in twined weaving, the ma- 

 terials being dog and goat hair and the down of waterfowl. The 

 upper and lower border are plain and the sides decorated with round 

 braided fringe. The surface of the textile presents a nap of down 

 in alternate horizontal bands of gray and brown down incorporated 

 in the thick structure during the process of weaving. A strip along 

 either side is without down and has a pattern in squares of black, 

 white, red, and green. It is margined b}^ a cording next to the 

 downy portion. Dimensions : Upper border, 41 inches ; lower border, 

 49 inches; width, 45 inches; width of fringe, 8 inches. 



A woven belt from the Salish Indians of Washington (Cat. No. 

 2120, U. S. N. M.) (pi. 13), collected by Charles Wilkes, is of a 

 twined weave in red, green, and natural yarn of the hair of the 

 Salish domestic dog and the mountain goat. The design comprises 

 a central section of horizontal lines in red, green, and white, two 

 sections of zigzags in white and red, and one section like a tree with 

 branches. The weaving was worked both ways from the middle 

 as in many hand-woven belts. The warp forms a long fringe at one 

 end and at the other end the fringe is looped over the warp ends. 

 Braided cords are supplied for tying at the ends. Dimensions: 34 

 inches wide; 92 inches long; fringe, 19 inches long. 



Another woven belt from the Salish collected by Charles Wilkes 

 (Cot. No. 2121, U. S. N. M.), also shown on Plate 13, is similar to the 

 one described above, but appears to be a much older object. 



Woven belts from the Salish, also collected by Charles Wilkes, are 

 shown on Plate 13 with the above. The objects are of a fine weave 

 in soft yarn of the hair of mountain goat and dog, in natural color, 

 and dyed red, yellow, dark blue, and light green colors. The edges 

 are bound with drilling of cotton. No device for tying is found at 

 the ends, although the objects were used as ornaments for costume, 

 or, perhaps, as belts. Dimensions : 11^4 inches wide ; 28 inches long. 



Dress of the Calif ornia-OTegon tribes. — The tribes of California 

 excelled in decorative art, which they applied to almost all objects 

 of use. Examples of costumes and adornment as skirts of pine seeds 

 and braided grass, basketry headdresses, necklaces, and other objects 



