ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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Fig-. 8J- is the border of a coiled basket collected amono- the Hopi 

 Indirns by Victor Mindeleff, Cat. No. 84500, U.S.N.M. It will be 

 seen that the foundatioii of the coiled work on the body of the 

 basket consists of three rods on the same perpendicular plane. The 

 stitch passes over the three; catches under one of the previous coils, 

 the stitches interlocking-. In hnishing off this work a single rod is 

 used for the niargiii or l)order. It is sewed to the upper rod of the 

 previous foundation in plain 

 coiled work; but while this proc- 

 ess is going on a series of three 

 splints are twined around ))oth 

 the foundation and the stitches 

 of the border, ^^'hen the whole 

 is drawn tight it gives the ap- 

 pearance of a very elal)orate 

 double-braided work, looked at 

 from the outside, and a con- 

 tinuous twined or rope work on 

 the upper margin. In order to 

 make the style more compre- 

 hensible, a drawing from the ])order of Cat. No. 20-1883 is introduced, 

 %. 85, in which the elements of tlie l)order twine are in different colors. 

 The two examples just shown illustrate what was previously said about 

 using twined work for the borders of coiled weave, and the opposite 

 among the Tlinkits. 



Fig. 86 represents the border of a coiled l)asket of the Sia Indians 

 of New Mexico, Cat. No. 134218, U.S.N.M., collected ])y Mrs. Matilda 



TllREE-STKAND COILED BORDER. 



Hopi, Arizona. 



Fig. 85. 

 detail of fio. 84. 



C. Stevenson. A hoop is used for the foundation of the border, and it is 

 hrst made fast to the regular sewing underneath by means of a simple 

 coiled splint on the outside of this. The ornamental border consists 

 of an ordinary figure-of-eight wrapping, as in doing up a kite string, 

 going from left to right. A splint passes under the foundation rod 

 toward the front, and then forward five stitches over, behind, and 

 under, back three stitches and under. The same process repeated 

 gives the form of a braid on the outside. Finally, by the manipula- 



