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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



foundation does not appeal'. On th(^ surface of the bam slii bu 

 basketry the Porno weaver adds pretty bits of bird feathers and deli- 

 cate pieces of shell. The 1)asket represmits the wealth of the maker, 



and the gift of one of these to a 

 friend is considered to be the highest 

 compliment. 



Plate '2\) is a beautiful example of 

 Bam shi bu coiled basketry, having 

 a foundation of three Bams, or shoots 

 of Hind's willow {Sdlie i<et<)< HI folia). 

 The sewing of the lighter portions 

 is in carefully prepared roots of 

 a sedge, Kahum {Carex harharae)., 

 while the designs are in the roots of 

 a l)ulrush, Tsuwish {Srirj>>/s 7>ia7'i- 

 tlmus). Red feathers of the Cali- 

 fornia woodpecker are scattered over 

 the surface. This faultless speci- 

 men, now in the collection of C. P. Wilcomb, was made in the year 

 1896 l)y Squaw Mary, a noted basket maker, wife of Ned Dunson 

 (Indian), then living at Santa Rosa Creek, Sonoma County, California. 

 She belonged to the Tsar walo division of the Pomos. Diameter of 

 the basket 8f inches, collected by J. P. Stanley. 



F SPLINTS. 



Fig. 52. 



imbricated work detaii,, called klikitat. 



Showing method of concealing coil stitches. 



H. Splittt foundation. — In l)asketry of this type the foundation 

 consists of a iumil)er of longer or shorter splints massed together and 

 sewed, the stitches passing under one oi' more of the splints in the 



