196 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Shoots. — The young and pliable growth of plants in the first year. 

 Rough shoots, prepared shoots, and split shoots are used. 



Shreds. — Irregular strips of plants used in foundations of coiled 

 baskets, 



/Sjjiral. — Term applied in basket making and decoration: (1) To the 

 whorled coil, wound about a center and receding, as in Hopi plaques, 

 flat spiral/ (2) to the helical coil, winding on a cylinder, cylindrical 

 spiral., as in coiled jars; (3) to the conical coil, rising in a cone, conical 

 spiral. 



Splint. — In basketr}', a long strip of split wood, uniform in width 

 and thickness for weaving or sewing materials. Often the term is 

 more looseh" applied to the split pieces that make up the foundation of 

 coiled work. 



Spoke. — Term sometimes applied to each of the elements in radiating 

 basket warp. 



Stalk. — The stems of reeds, grass, cattails, etc., for basket materials. 



Stitches. — The separate elements in sewing coiled })asketry. They 

 ma}' be close or open, whole or split (furcate), and interlocked. 



Strajid. — One of the elements of the weft in twined basketr}', which 

 may be two-strand, three-strand, etc. 



Strip. — A narrow ribbon of leaf or other thin basket material 

 answers in function to the harder splints. 



String. — Two or more small yarns twisted together. The warp of 

 twined wallets is of strings. 



Symhol. — The meaning of a design on a basket. Care uuist be exer- 

 cised in the use of this word. Only the maker of the design knows 

 the symbol or meaning. 



Tesselate. — Inlaid, as in checkered mosaic. The checks and stitches 

 as well as the designs in baskets have a tesselate appearance. 



Ttoine. — To bend something around another object. In basketry, 

 to make twined ware in any of its varieties, plain, twilled, wrapped, 

 latticed, three-strand, etc. 



Warp.^-T\iQ elements of woven basketry on which the fabric is built 

 up; may be parallel, decussated, latticed, radiated, zigzag, etc.; also a 

 single one of these. Each element may be called a warp. (See Spoke.) 



Wattliny. — Coarse fence or fish weir in wicker or twined basketr3\ 



Weft. — The filling of woven basketry, same as woof. 

 Weftage. — The texture of woven basketry. 



Whlj) or irJiipstitch. — To sew with an overcast stitch, with long- 

 wrapping stitches. The sewing of coiled basketry may be so called. 

 Borders of baskets are often whipped on. 



Wicl'enrork. — Weaving in which the warp is rigid and the weft 

 flexible. 



lf7;/(7. — To wi'ap one element about another. Same as Frap. In 

 Thompson River wallets the twined weft is wound or frapped with 

 corn husk. 



