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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Fig. 82. 

 simple toil border. 

 Paiute Indians, Utah. 



Cat. No. 11688, IT.S.N.M. Collected by .1. W. Powell. 



of which hammocks and other weaves without foundation are examples, 

 is finished off by simply stopping- the work. The same would be true 

 in all the varieties of foundation mentioned in the previous section. 

 In the present example the foundation consists of tlireo rods or stems 

 not set in triangular fashion, as in the best Pomo coiled work, but in a 

 vertical series. This maizes the rows much wider and economizes the 



sewing-. But the varieties of 

 this type are as numerous as 

 the tril)es of Indians practicing 

 coiled weaving. (See fig. 82.) 

 Fig. 83 illustrates the same 

 statement already made with 

 reference to the so-called grass- 

 hopper basket (Plate 24). The 

 drawing shows how, with a 

 splint foundation, the sewing 

 material interlocks with the 

 stitches underneath, taking up 

 at the same time one or more 

 splints. 



In Plate 23, illustrating bifur- 

 cated stitches on a basket in the McLeod collection, will be seen the 

 simplest departure from the ordinar}" coiled sewing on the border. 

 The stitches pass forward one space, through and backward a space, 

 making a herring-])ono effect on the upper edge of the basket. 



Plate 35, upper figure, illustrates a simple type of border work. 

 The foundation is a bundle of splinters wrapped with splints of spruce 

 root and sewed on here and 

 there in regular order to the 

 coil underneath, being bent 

 between the stitches so as to 

 form a regular simious line. 

 On the next round the row is 

 straight, wrapped like the first, 

 and is sewed to the top of the 

 sinuous coil underneath. On 

 the top of all is another row, 

 the bends not being so high, 

 the lower portions being sewed 

 to the joint of the other two. The border forms a series of lenticular 

 openings, with a bar across the long diameter. This method of orna- 

 mentation is not confined to one area, an Eskimo specimen from Davis 

 Inlet, northern Labrador, collected by Lucian Turner, being made on 

 substantially the same plan. 



Fig. 83. 

 siml'le wrapped border. 



