248 



EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



F\g. 42 roprospnts :i carrying" fraino and net of the Pima and other 

 tribes on our Mexican border. It is supported b}' a rude framework 



of sticks. The network is of agave 

 twine and is made of interlocking 

 coils, looking- as all-coiled ])as- 

 ketry would if the foundation 

 wore removed. 



Further on illustrations will be 

 g-iven show'ing- the wide extent of 

 this technical process of coiled 

 basketry without foundation. P]x- 

 amj^les in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum come from as far south as 

 Paragua}^ and even the Straits of 

 Magellan. It is in common use as 

 far north as northern Mexico. 

 J^oth the possession of different 

 material and the demands of a 

 tropical life have occasioned the 

 employment of this particular 

 technic in articles of connnon use 

 a))out the household, its relation 

 to coiled ])asketry and bead work 

 is shown l)y the fact that women 

 in making the fabric use a nee- 

 dle to carry the thread or string- 

 around through the row of work 

 preceding. A small rod or mesh 

 gauge is used to secure uniformity in the size of the meshes. 



B. Simi^le infcrloch'ing colh. — Coilt^d work in which there may be 

 any sort of foundation, but the stitches 

 merely interlock without catching under the 

 rods oi' splints or grass l)eneath. This form 

 easily passes into those in which the stitch 

 takes one or more elements of the founda- 

 tion, but in a thorough ethnological study 

 small differences can not be overlooked. 

 (See ffg. 41 B.) 



Fig. 43 I'epresents this style of workman- 

 ship on a coiled l)asket in grass stems from 

 Alaska, collected by Lucien M. Turner. The 

 straws for sewing merely interlock without 

 gathering the grass roll. 



In the imbricated basket work of British Columbia and Washing- 

 ton the sewing is done with splints of cedar root and the stitches 



Fig. 4'2. 



carrying basket. 



Pima Iiifliaiis, Arizon.a. 



Cat. No. 12fifi80, U.S.N.M. Colle.'ted l).v Edward Palmer. 



Fig. A:\. 



detail of interlocking 



stitches. 



