ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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poles in place. The wrapping is very close where the rafters come to 

 a point. As they widen the weft comes to be farther apart, l^eing- 

 quite open on the outer margin. This method of weaving was 

 employed b}^ the mound builders of the Mississippi Valley. Markings 

 of wrapped weaving pressed on ancient pottery taken from a mound in 

 Ohio are to be seen in the Thii-d Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. 

 (See fig. 14.) 



This style of weaving had not a wide distribution in America and is 

 used at the present day in a restricted region. When tlie warp and 

 the weft are of the same twini^ or material and the decussations are 

 drawn tiglit, th(> joint resembles the first half of a square knot. The 

 Mincopies of the Andaman Islands construct a carrying Imsket in the 

 same technic. Specimens of their work were collectcMl and presented 

 to the U. S. National Museum l)}^ 

 Dr. W. L. Ab])ott." These baskets 

 resemble most closely the Mohave 

 specimens, only they are smaller and 

 more attractive. The Min<'o]ii(»s and 

 their neigh])ors far and near have the 

 incompara1)le rattan for warp and 

 weft, which combines the strength 

 and flexi])ility of copper wire. The 

 distril)ution of this wrapped wea^'- 

 ing has not been studied. Plate IT 

 is a carrying basket in wrapped 

 weaving from the Moha\(» Indians, ]^hotograph(Hl from the original 

 now in the Field Columbian Museum, CHiicago. 



E. Twilled irorl'. — This is found in ancient mounds of th(> Missis- 

 sippi Valley, in ])agging of the Rocky Mountains, down the Pacific 

 coast from the island of Attn, the most westerly of the Aleutian 

 chain, to the })orders of Chile, and here and there in the Atlantic 

 slope of South America. Indeed, it is fyund among savages through- 

 out the world. It is the most elegant and intricate of all in the woven 

 or plicated series. Twined work has a set of warp rods or rigid 

 elements as in wickerwork, l)ut the weft elements are commonly 

 administered in pairs, though in three-strand twining and in l)raid 

 twining three weft elements are enqjloyed. In passing from warp to 

 warp these elements are twisted in half -turns on each other so as to 

 form a two-strand or three-strand twine or l)raid and usually so deftly 

 as to keep the smooth, glossy side of the weft outward. 



The position of the weaver at her task on twined work, in Plate 18, 

 shows the transition between the hund)le posture of the primitive 

 basket maker and her successor later on seated at a loom. The name 



Fl<i. W. 



UKAl'rK.I> WKA VINIi, FKOM McirNK IN OHIO. 

 Alter W. II. Holini-s. 



« Smith.sonian Report, 1901, i^p. ■175-41»2, pi. n. 



