ABOEIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



291 



Follow these pairs up to the top of the basket and note that the two 

 rows of twined weaving — one dark, the other light — also inclose pairs, 

 ])ut not the same pairs, between the single twinings. Here seven 

 human figures are woven in black on a lirown ground. The pairs are 

 holding- in their hands between them a rhomboid ol)ject, reminding 

 one of an Iroquois wampum belt in which two warriors are shown as 

 Ibearing the sacred pipe. The weaving on this space is twilled mixed 

 "with twined, the latter being subservient to the former. The warp 

 elements no longer are worked in pairs, but singh^ The twined 

 weaving on them is twilled on the brown body surface and vertical 

 across the black rectangles, making the double warp conform to the 

 twined weaving below everywhere save on the feet. All this is finger 

 w ork and deserves a prize for its maker both for the plan and the size 

 of the molecules. 





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Fig. 97. 



human figures ix twined weaving. 



Ancient Peru. 



After W. H. Holmes. 



Coiled basketry, on the contrary, is made up of radial elements 

 only, which are the stitches, some being long and thin, others short 

 and wide. The a\sthetic efl'ects depend on the quality of the material. 

 The very coarsest ware of the Utes and the Klondike nations has little 

 beauty of texture, while that of the Alaskan Tinne or the California 

 Washoe, Panamint, or Porno is faultless. In finer coiled work, when 

 the stitches barely interlock, they appear to stand one over another 

 from row to row; but when the stitches pass underneath one of the 

 rods at least of the foundation below there is an alternation of stitches 

 with open spaces on the surface resembling twilled weaving, each one 

 being wedged between two, over and under. It is impossible to ti-ace 

 any ornamentation in coiled work among the eastern Indians of North 



