238 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Fig. ii;i. 



VARIETY IN TWINED WKAVlNli. 



(Outsifle.) 

 Anierioan Aiithropologrist, III, IHOI, fi^. IS. 



Plate 22 shows two examples of tee weaving. The upper one, 19 



inches in diameter, is from Pinole rancheria, Mendocino County, Cali- 

 fornia. The lower one is froiu 

 Lake County, and ])oth are in 

 the collection of C. P. Wilcoml). 

 The warp is in stems of the wil- 

 low, the dull colored material of 

 the weft is the root of sedge, 

 the brown and very white colors 

 are in the stem of cercis — the 

 former color being outside bark, 

 the latter of wood next to the 

 bark. (See also Plate 173. ) 



The technic of these two bas- 

 kets is as follows: Beginning at 

 the upper edge there is no spe- 

 cial })order, the ends of the warp 

 stems being cut off; two or three 

 rows of plain twined weaving 

 are at the top; just below will 

 be seen three or four rows of 

 alternating brown and white 

 rectangles; these are also in 



plain twined weaving, although the twists pass over two or three warp 



stems instead of one; after that twined tec weaving follows over the 



entire surface. With an ordinaiy 



hand glass the two sets of warp, 



vertical and horizontal, can be 



made out, and also the way in 



which the weft of thin splints is 



administered. The limitations of 



ornament to the narrow bands 



with triangles and parallelograms 



for the elements are clearly seen. 



On the plain bands a form of orna- 

 ment will be noted, in which splints 



of cercis unite with those of sedge 



root to form an alternation of 



wood color and very white. In 



the colored bands the eti'ects are 



produced by exposing now the 



outside or l)ark of the cercis, now 



the inside or wood color. No at- 

 tempt has been made to change the color of these splints artificially. 

 5. Three-strand twined weaving. — Three-strand twined weaving is the 



Fui. 20. 



VARIETY IN TWINED WEAVING. 



(Inside.) 



American Anthropolofist. Ill, 1901, flg. 21. 



