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Klikitat, Cowlitz, Puviilliip, Tulalip, Snoqualmie, Skagit, and Fraser 

 River Indians. The Indians of Neah Ba^^, Washington, and of Van- 

 couver Island, British Columbia, use the split brown inner bark as the 

 warp of their finely woven but artificiall}^ d3'ed flexible baskets. The 

 Nisqualli Indians of Fuget Sound, and doubtless man}' other tril)es of 

 the Northwest coast, employ the same material in coarser strands in 

 making rough burden ])askets, frequently in conjunction with a warp 

 of split l)ranch('s from the same tree. (See Flate 10.) 



Tsiig-a inertensiana. Black Hemlock. 



The Indians of Neah Ba}', Washington, sometimes use split hemlock 

 roots in their coarse openwork quadrangular V-shaped burden baskets. 

 The tree was described ])y a Neah Bay Indian as having cones 2^ inches 

 long, in which case the species would be the black hemlock instead of 

 the Western hemlock {Tsuga heterophylla), which is the commoner 

 of the two at low elevations in that vicinity. 



Tumion californicum. California Nutmeg. 



K'oM)i (Poino). 



The split roots of this tree are sometimes used by the Fomo Indians 

 of Mendocino County, California, in the manufacture of their finer 

 baskets. (V. K. Chesnut, 1902.) 



Typha latifolia. Cattail. 



Po^-pas (Klamath). 



Twisted strands made of slender ribbons split from the sheathed 

 portions of the leaves are used by the Klamath Indians of Oregon in 

 their smaller flexible baskets, either to form the body of the basket or 

 to make an ornamental band. The color is a lusterless, slightly ashy 

 white. 



Ulmus americana. Elm. 



The Sioux Indians of the northern plains region used the inner bark 

 of the elm to make a coarse basket. (V. Havard, 1890.) 



Vaccinium inembranaceum. Elueberry. 



Ka-na-ta' (Tlinkit). 



The juice of some species of blueberi'y, prol)ably Yacciniurn mein- 

 hranaceum^ is used as a purple dye in spruce-root baskets b}^ the Tlinkit 

 Indians of the south Alaskan coast, ((i. T. Emmons, notes.) 



Vitis californica. Grape. 



Shi-Tii^ (Pomo). 



Among the Hupa Indians of northern California the root is some- 

 times used to fasten the ribs of a basket at its ])egimiing, and to make 

 a round at the outer edge of the basket's bottom, while in fine hats 



