ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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Flii.o3. 



IMBRICATED OOIL WORK, CALLEU KLIKITAT. 



coil ))eiieuth (fio-. 51). In tlio Pomo lang'uaoo [t is called cliilo, ))ut it 



has no standing in that tribe. In the (irreat Interior Basin, where the 



pliant material of the C-alifornia trilies is wantino-, only the outer and 



younger poi-tion ot" the stem will do for sewing. The interior parts 



in such examples are made up into 



the foundation. All such ware is 



rude, and the sewing frequently 



pass(^s through instead of around 



the stitches ))elow. In the Kli- 



kitat l>asketry the pieces of spruce 



or cedar root not used for sewing 



materiid avo also worked into the 



foiuidation. (See tig. 41 H.) 



In a small area on Fraser River, 

 in southwestern Canada, on the 

 u])per waters of the Columl)ia, and 

 in many Salishan tril)es of north- 

 western Washington, l>asketry, 

 called iud)ricated, is made. The 

 foundation, as said, is in cedar or 

 spruce root, while the sewing is done with the outer and tough por- 

 tion of the root; the stitches pass over the upi)er bundl(> of splints 

 and are locki^d with those underneath. On the outside of these bas- 

 kets is a foi-m of t(>chnic. which also constitutes the ornamentation. 

 It is not something added, or overlaid, or sewed on, ]>ut is a part of 

 the texture etiected in the progress of the manufacture. (See fig. 62.) 

 The method of adding this ornamentation in strips of cherry bark, 

 cedar l)ast, and grass stems, dyed with Oregon grape, is unique, and 



on this account I have applied the 

 term "■iml)ricated" to the style of 

 weave here shown. (See fig. 53.) 



The strip of colored bark or grass 

 is laid down and caught under a 

 passing stitch; before another stitch 

 is taken this one is ])ent forward to 

 cover the last stitch, doubled on 

 itself so as to })e underneath the 

 next stitch, and so with each one it 

 is bent backward and forward so 

 that the sewing is entirely con- 

 cealed, forming a sort of "knife plaiting," 



In some of the finer old l)askets in the National Museum, collected 

 over sixty years ago, the entire surface is covered with work of this 

 kind, the strips not being- over an eighth of an inch wide. James 

 Teit describes and illustrates this type of weaving among the Thomp- 



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IMHIUIATKl) BASKETRY DKTAIL. 



'J'luiinp.son River. 

 Alter James Teit. 



