ABORIGINAL AMEKICAN BASKETRY. 



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iiio- of these savage women. It is done in such a careful manner that 

 it becomes an element of beauty, otherwise it would become a contri- 

 bution to ugliness. Examples of this work will be seen in Plate 24. 



(3) Another resource of ornamentation in the elementary American 

 work of coiled ))asketry has been well used by the ISalish Indians — 

 that is the so-called beading-, which consists in running- a strip of l>right 

 grass in and out among- the coiled stitches at regular intervals. Many 

 examples of brown cedar sewing- with l)right golden-colored straws 

 for the beading- are in the U. S. National Museum. This arrests the 

 radial effect of the coil stitches and substitutes tlie concentric or 

 parsillel motif. 



Fig. 99. 



DETAIL OK FKi. 'JH. 

 After W. H. Holmes. 



(4) The last elementary resource referred to among the Salish tribe 

 is imbrication, which will be more minutely descriV)ed in the section 

 devoted to color in ornamentation. The sewing on such s})ecimens is 

 entirely ol)literated and the surface reconstructed in A'ellow, red, ])rown, 

 and wood color, the effect being tesselate mosaic. 



Among the California tribes these coiled elements, being much 

 smaller in size than those in the ])askets of the Salish tribes, afforded 

 opportunity for different artistic effects. An inspection of the work 

 done by Pomo, Maidu, and other tribes of northern California shown 

 in many plates and figures will prove this. 



Fig. 98 is from the surface of a beautiful coiled basket of the Tulare 

 Indians, Tulare County, California. It gives an <)pi><)rtunity of study- 

 ing the elementary stitches on the best of coiled work. These Indians 



