ABORIGINAL AMP:RICATSr BASKETRY 



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III, WITH (lI'EX SEWIN(; INCLOSING TARTS 

 OF FOUNDATION. 



steins, oi' siniill nii(lri))s from })alin leaves, oi* sliredd(Hl yucca. The 

 effect in all such ware is o-ood, for the reason that the maker has per- 

 fect control of her material. Excellent examples of this kind are to 

 be seen in the southwestern portions of the United States, amono- the 

 Pueblos and Missions, and in northern Africa. The sewing may be 

 done witli split stems of hard wood, 

 willow, rhus, and the like, or, as in 

 the case of the Mission l>askets in 

 southei'n California, of the stems of 

 rushes [JitiieKs acutu.s) or stiff' o-rass 

 {^Epicdiiip, s rhjcni^). (See tig. 56, 

 and the cross section given in tig. 

 •il I.) In the larger granar}' Ijaskets 

 of the Southwest a bundle of straws 

 furnishes the foundation, while the 

 sewing is done with ])road strips of 

 tough l)ark, as in lig. 57. 



Plate ;^0 shows specimens of Hopi 

 coiled pla({ues on shredded founda- 

 tion made up of the harder parts of 

 the yucca split and rolled into a Imndle. The sewing is with tue 

 tough, leafy portion and |)asses simply under the coil in preparation, 

 the stitches interlocking. BetweiMi the retined type of coiled work 

 of this class and the old-fashioned straw beehive or the Mohave gran- 

 ary is a long distance. These thick Hopi phujues have their nearest 



resemblance in tlie Moorish Itasketr}' 

 of Xorth Africa and leave the question 

 on the mind whether from long contact 

 the llopi themselves may not have got- 

 ten a suggestion therefrom. These 

 specimens are Cat. Nos. 106S56 and 

 lt;«;s,",,s in the V . S. National Museum 

 and were collected )»y James Mooney. 

 (See also tig. 58.) 



K. Fu('(jhi)i <r>H((lh((.s]ietr(j. — In this 

 ware the foundation is slight, consist- 

 ing of one or more rushes; the sewing 

 is in l)uttonhole stitch or half hitches, 

 with rush stems interlocking. The 

 resemblance of this to Asiatic types 

 on the Paciffc is most striking. (See ffg. 5U.) 



Plate yi is one of the most interesting specimens of ])asketry found 

 in America, because in its structure it practically imitates the speci- 

 mens just illustrated from the Straits of Magellan. It is described by 

 NAT MUS 1902 17 



Fli«. TiS. 



FOUNDATION OF GRASS OK SHREDDED 

 MATERIALS. 



