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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



and around the second. These two styles of finishing- hat borders are 

 in use b}' the Haida in basketry, and may have been borrowed from 

 them. (See fig, 75.) 



7. In all open baskets made for use where strength is of primary 

 importance the warp ends arc doubled over on the standing part of 

 the next warp splint in the direction of the weave, that is, to the right, 

 and twined down to it with the weft. This finish is found on the old- 

 est pieces of Yakutat work. It is often strengthened by the overlaid 

 embroidery in straw or root around the last few spirals of weave. A 

 number of technical processes employed when the warp is cut off flush 



BOEDER OK TURNED-DOWN WARP WITH TWO-STRAND TWINE. 



Tliiikit Iiifliaiis. 



will be found also on the borders of speciuiens in which the warp is 

 turned down. 



8. With the turning down of the warp strands the three-strand woof 

 twining is sometimes used in the place of the two strand. 



(9) A later finish, and one generally found on the shallow, basin-like 

 basket used as a work basket in weaving and as a berry screener, con- 

 sists of a turning down of the warp ends as described, and, in addition, 

 weaving a two-strand twining over the bights, forming a rope-like twist 

 over the outer edge, and thoroughly protecting the more exposed parts 

 of the warp. This character of finish occurs more among the Sitka, 

 Hoonah. and Hootz ah tar tribes. The Chilcat never used it and the 

 Yakutat only in the case of the basket-worker's basket. It is certainly 

 of more recent date, although not of to-da3^ (See fig. 76.) 



