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in weaving in twilled fashion. Nothing- can excel the Porno, Pit 

 River, and other northern California carrying baskets in attractive- 

 ness of decoration. In openwork twining, where the warp has a 

 chance to show its versatility, as in mound-builders' ware, but especially 

 in Aleutian wallets, the pleasing effects in a single color are without 

 end. For examples of the great variety' in twined-work decoration 

 see Plates 19, 21, and 48. 



Plate -18, illustrating twined decoration in its elements is a repre- 

 sentation of food bowls of the Klamath Indians of southern Oregon. 

 These old specimens were among the first received at the U. S. 

 National Museum and Avere collected by George Gibbs, Cat. No. 7568, 

 U.S.N.M. The resources of ornamentation used by the Klamath 

 Indians are fine stems and rods for the fiber, difi'erent colors in the 

 wood, and superadded elements for decoration. Much of their work 





Fig. 96. 



diagonal twilled ornament. 



British Giiiaua. 



After W. H. Holmes. 



is done in soft material and in the type of overlaying used by them 

 the ends are fastened off carelessly on the inside of the structure so 

 as to give a rough appearance. 



Further illustrations of Klamath ornamentation, as well as that of 

 their kindred, the Modocs, will be found in Plates 167, 17-1. 



One of the prettiest and boldest attempts at securing effects in 

 twined weave in the U. S. National Museum is from the vast ceme- 

 tery of Ancon in Peru. The illustration (fig. 97) shows the decorative 

 belt on a small workbasket made from rushes. One might be deceived 

 into thinking that the motive came from the Yokut Indians of Cali- 

 fornia (figs. 98 and 99), Itut a glance at the texture reveals a different 

 method of achieving the same result. The warp is double, consisting 

 of two straws side by side as in the Aleut wallets. At the bottom are 

 three rows of plain twined weaving, each twist inclosing two warps. 



