242 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Another row of the same kind is made halfway between the upper 

 edge of the solid weaving and the border. A hoop of wood is held in 

 place on the inside by a wrapping of coarse twine. The appearance of 

 three-strand braid in the drawing on the inside of the baslvet is given 

 by the strands of twined weaving and the ends of the warp bent over. 

 The basket is strengthened on the outside by five vertical rods, and 

 the carrying string is in three-strand braid, precisely as in the body 

 and margin of the basket. Height 22 inches, diameter 23 inches. In 

 the collection of Dr. C. Hart Merriam arc two closely woven Klamath 

 baskets in the same technic (see Plate 174). Styles (c-) and (d) Ijclong 

 rather to ornamentation and will be desci-ibed under that heading. 



Fig. 3H. 



carrying basket, thkee-strand braid. 



Klamath Indians, Oregon. 



Cat. No. 24104, U.S.N.M. After W. H. Holraes. 



Something should be said in this connection about the manner of 

 laying the foundation for weaving baskets. In many of the specimens 

 illustrated in this work it will be seen that very little tasteful care has 

 been bestowed upon this part of the work. The Eskimos, for instance, 

 do not know how, seemingly, but use a piece of rawhide, and it is said 

 that the Indians of British Columbia formerly inserted a piece of board 

 or wood at the bottom of their coiled baskets and sewed the coils 

 around an edge of it, but there is method in much of the basket weav- 

 ing iu this point, as will be seen on examining the plates. Miss Mary 



