206 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Helianthus petiolaris. Sunflower. 



A-ka^-u-shi (Moki). 



The .seeds are used l\y the ^loki Indians of northern Arizona to make 

 a blue dye for use in ])oth coiled and wiclier plaques. (W. Hough, 

 notes.) The color produced in the coiled plaques, on sewing material 

 of Y-ucca glaiica^ is of a dark, almost prussian-blue shade, when the 

 sewing strands are applied with their broken inner surface outward, 

 but of a much lighter shade when the epidermal surface is outward, 

 (Cat. No. 128708, U.S.N.M.) 



Hicoria ovata. Hickory. 



The wood of some unidentified species of hickory, probabh^ Hicoria 

 ovata, is emploj-ed among the remnants of the Six Nations in New 

 York, Pennsjdvania, and adjacent portions of Canada in the manufac- 

 ture of modern splint baskets. (T. Donaldson, 1894.) The inner bark 

 of a hickory is used by the North Carolina Cherokees for yellow pat- 

 terns in their baskets. (Cat. No. 03077, U.S.N.M.) 



Hilaria jamesii. Galleta. 



Ta^-ka-8hu (Moki). 



The stems of this grass, roughly stripped of leayos and seeds, are 

 used for the filling in of the coiled plaques of the Moki Indians of 

 northern xVrizona. (W. Hough, 1898.) In the first few turns of the 

 spiral, which are too short to ])e made of the grass stems, the packing 

 is of shredded leayes of Yncca (jlauva. (Cat. No. 128467, U.S.N.M.) 



Juglans nigra. Black Walnut. 



The Cherokee Indians of North Carolina use the split inner bark to 

 make black patterns in their baskets. (Cat. No. 63077, U.S.N.M.) 



Juncus acutus. Ruah. 



The Coahuilla Indians of the Colorado Desert, southern California, 

 use the stems to make patterns in their coiled basket bowls. The 

 material, as gathered in a marsh at Palm Springs, is immersed for 

 seyeral days in the nuiddy water of the spring to render it flexible, 

 and is then dyed a dark oliyaceous or almost black color with the juice 

 of a sea blite. (E. Palmer, notes.) (See Dondia xuffrutescens.) 



Juncus balticus. Rush. 



Tsin-a'-u (Klamath). 

 Kloli-tso^-sic'> (Apache). 



The stems of this rush, which is commonly known as wire grass, 

 are often used by Indian children to make small baskets. The prac- 

 tice has been noted among the Klamaths of Oregon and the White 

 Mountain Apaches of the Arizona plateau. 



