548 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1930 



The panels of woven beadwork are backed with red flannel strouding. 

 Suspension is by means of a strip of tanned doeskin. In the older examples 

 tanned skins were used instead of flannel strouding, a»d dyed porcupine 

 quills instead of trade beads of colored glass. 



Plate 4 



Headband (lower left) and sashes and belts of woven beadwork. Chippewa 

 Indians. 



Plate 5 



Examples of the incomplete scroll design of the northern woodlands tribes, 

 extending from Labrador to the vicinity of the Great Lakes and the valley 

 of the Mackenzie Kiver, also to northern and eastern Siberia. This design is 

 more popularly referred to as the double-curve motive of Algonklan art. 



Top: A babiche woven bag, Cat. No. 2551, U.S.N.M., collected by B. R. 

 Ross from the Dog Rib Dene Indians of the Mackenzie Valley. " Babiche " 

 is made of finely dissected tanned buckskin woven in openwork coiling 

 without foundation. The decorative panel appearing near the lip of the 

 bag has been embroidered with split and dyed porcupine quills ; the design 

 is a flattened double volute. The bag is 18 inches wide and 9 inches deep. 

 Middle: A decorated woven garment characteristic of the dress of the 

 Ainu of northern Japan. Embroidered patterns in flowing double volutes or 

 spirals resembling those of the Gold and other Amur River tribes of north- 

 ern Siberia apparently link up a decorative design area of northern Asia 

 with northern America. 



Bottom: Designs from decorated tanned skin shirts of the Naskapi 

 Indians of Labrador. The patterns are applied through painting while 

 farther west they are embroidered ; on the Paciflc coast, among the Eskimo, 

 similar designs are incised or engraved on ivory. Upper row from speci- 

 mens in the United States National Museum ; lower row, from Peabody 

 Museum. 



Plate 6 



An example of Chippewa wood carving. Cat. No. 175.35, U.S.N.M., collected by 

 J. H. Clark. The engraved and flat-relief patterns resemble in part the 

 double-curve motive of eastern Algonkian art, and in part the geometrical, 

 acute triangular designs of the Plains tribes. Art designs generally pre- 

 valent among the Chippewa, Menominee, Winnebago, and other western Great 

 Lakes tribes are transitional between floral, curvilinear motives of the eastern 

 woodlands tribes and the geometrical art of the Indian tribes of the Plains. 



Plate 7 



Saddlebags or "parfleches" of painted rawhide typical of the Plains Indians. 



Left: Parfleche with painted designs typical of the Comanche Indians. 

 Cat. No. 73532, U.S.N.M. 



Center: Decorated rawhide quiver of the Comanche, Cat. No. 76689, 

 U.S.N.M. (left), and a decorated rawhide work box of a Comanche Indian 

 squaw, Cat. No. 76421, U.S.N.M. (right). 



Right: Painted rawhide parfleche of the Sioux Indians, Cat. No. 17196, 

 U.S.N.M. Plain on reverse ; painted in green, yellow, blue, and red. colors 

 on obverse in the order indicated. Dimensions: 29 inches long; 17 inches 

 wide. 



