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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



The McCloud River Indians in Shasta County, California, cut off the 

 warp flush and finish the border with what looks like plain twined 

 weaving on the edge, but a regular half knot is tied between each pair 

 of warp stems. 



Fig. 71 shows a bonhu- of Paiute Indian twined basket, in which the 

 warp rods oi" stems are ))eiit to the left at right angles and cut oQ 



af t(»r passing two or more stems, 

 tlie objeet Ixung to have at least 

 three ends in a })unch forming 

 the foundation of the l)order. 

 The luiiting material is a long 

 splint of willow or rhus, pass- 

 ing to the left, up and around 

 the foundation in front of the 

 standing part, and under the up- 

 per foundation stem backward, 

 forward to begin another series. 

 It is in fact an application of the 

 half hitch or button-hole stitch. 

 When these are drawn tight they form an effective border which on 

 the upper margin has all the appearance of a four-plv braid. The 

 basket itself is an example of twined weaving in twilled style, and 

 shaped something like an inunense strawberry. 



This same process of imitating braid on the border of a basket by 

 the ingenious wrapping of a single splint ))ecomes much more com- 

 plex in coiled basketry, as will be seen later in many figures. 



Flu. 70. 



WRAPPED WAKP BOKDKR. 



Znfii, New Moxico. 

 Cat. No. fiSl'.n, ll.S.N.AI. Colk-cli-d by Fmiik H. ('iisliinp:. 



Flc. 71. 



BORDER OK I'AIUTE TWINED ItASKET. 



The figure (Cat. No. 203258, U.S.N.M.) shows a combination of the 

 work just described and the twined-work border formed by bending 

 down the warp. The specimen is from the Porno Indians. Collected 

 by J. W. Hudson. Diameter, 14 inches; height, 10 inches. (Fig. 72.) 



By far the greatest variety in the treatment of borders in twined 

 basketr}^ will be found among the Tliidvit Indians, southeastern 



