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radiate, and after they arc held together ])y three rows of weft the 

 other eight are spread out in the same way. The drawing illustrates 

 exactly the manner in which this is done. 



Fig. 36 shows another method of beginning with 1(5 warp stems, 



plaiting them into checker pattern at first, 

 then afterwards spreading them out radi- 

 ally. 



Fig. 37 brings us into the Hop! Indian 

 type of twined weaying. Here four stems 

 in one direction cross the same number 

 at right angles and are held in place ))y a 

 row of twined weaying, additional warp 

 steins being inserted at the corners, which 

 spread out radially. 



Fig. 3S is a Hopi application of coiled 

 sewing to the beginning of the basket. 

 In Fig. 39 the warp stems are woven to- 

 gether in wicker Avork in two sets; the 

 first yertical, the second horizontal. As soon as they are in place and 

 held together the work proceeds as in ordinary weaving. 



Fig. 38. 

 six warp stems parallel. 



After Mary White. 



COILED BASKETRY 



Coiled basketry is produced ))y an oyer-and-over sewing with some 

 kind of flexible material, each stitch interlocking with the one inune- 

 diately underneath it. The exception to this is to be seen on Salish, 

 Maidu, and other baskets, in which the 

 passing stitch is driven through the wood 

 of the one underneath and splits it. 



In the coiled basketry of British Colum- 

 bia, as well as here and there farther south, 

 this splitting of stitches, so clumsj^ look- 

 ing when done without plan, is turned 

 into an element of ])eauty. The top of 

 each stitch is carefully Ijifurcated or tri- 

 furcated, so that to the uninitiated the sew- 

 ing appears to have ])een done vertically 

 instead of horizontally. This type of 

 work may be called furcate coil. (See 

 Plate 23 and figs. .51 and 55.) 



The specimen (Plate 23) is a nnnarkabh" old piece found near 

 Death's Valley, California. Diameter, 6^ inches; depth, 4 inches; 

 colors, dark wood, with line of l)rown around top. This is one of the 

 finest specimens of furcated stitches. It resembles conmion Ute l)as- 

 ketry of the two-stem variety, and in the sewing the stitches are not 

 driven home tight, but left as wide apart as possible. On the inside 



Fig. 39. 



warp stems crossed in threes; held 



by wicker. 



After Mary White. 



