ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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DIAGONAI, TWINKl) RASKKTRY. 



Pmiio Iiidiiiiis, California. 

 C'oUf.-ticii of ('. 1'. Wilconil). 



Plate 20 will make clear th(^ difference between plain twined weav- 

 ino- and diagonal twined or twilled work. The tio-urt\s ar(> of the bur- 

 den basket, the granary, and the mush bowls of tiie Porno Indians, in 

 Lake, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties, California, in the collection 

 of C. P. Wilcoml). Especial attention 

 is here drawn to the inlinittdy greater 

 possibilities of decoration in the twilled 

 work. The foregoing phite shows that 

 the ornamentation of plain twined 

 l)asketry is confined chiefly to hands, 

 but here the artist revels in the cycloid, 

 which widens and becomes more intri- 

 cate as it ascends. It rivals in com- 

 plexity the best coiled work of th(> 

 Pomos and should be compared with 

 Plates 20 and 5«;. 



8. W/'aj)jjed ttnincd tnari/u/. — In 

 wrapped twined weaving one element 

 of tlie twine passes along horizontally 

 across the warp stems, usually on the 

 inside of the ]>asket, forming a lattice. The binding element of splint, 

 or strip of l)ark, or string, is wrapped around the crossings of the 

 horizontal element with the vertical warp. (See lig. 21.) 



On the outside of the basket the turns of the wrapping are oldique; 



on the inside they ar(^ vertical. It 

 will be seen on examining this fig- 

 ure that one row inclines to the 

 right, the one above it to the left, 

 and so on alternately. This was 

 occasioned l)y the weaver's passing 

 from side to side of the square car- 

 rying basket, and not all the way 

 round as usual, l^he work is simi- 

 lar to that in an old-fashioned bird 

 cage, where the upright and hori- 

 zontal wires are held in place by a 

 wrapping of liner soft wire. The 

 typical example of this wrapped or 

 bird-cage twine is to l)e seen among 

 the Makah Indians of the Wakashan family living about Neah Bay, 

 AVashington, and in the soft hats of Salish and Shapaptian. (See tig. 22.) 

 In this type the warp and the liorizontal strip behind the warp are 

 both in soft material. The wrapping is done with a tough straw- 

 colored grass. When the weaving is beaten home tight the surface is 

 not unlike that of a tine tiled roof, the stitches overlying each other 



Fig. 21. 

 wrapped twined weaving. 



