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Plate 71 shows specimens of twined wallets made of spruce roots, 

 for carrying- berries and other articles of food on the back. The left- 

 hand figure in this plate is Catalogue No. 20704 in the National 

 Museum and was collected by James G. Swan, at Sitlca, Alaska. It 

 is an excellent specimen of twined weaving, with what is here called 

 false embroidery. The figures on the surface, determined I)}' Lieuten- 

 ant Emmons, are as follows: The two wide l)ands contain the following 

 ornaments: The large five-sided figures in the middle are the "Shark's 

 tooth;" the chevron pattern covering the shark's tooth means the 

 "Flaking of flesh of fish into narrow strips;" the small triangular fig- 

 ures are the "Salmon berry cut in halves," ))ut in this arrangement 

 also called "Water drops;" the narrow middle band is rendered 

 " Single tying around;" l^elow the ornamental band the cross-shaped 

 figure represents the "Raven's tail." 



The right-hand figure in this plate is also a berry basket. The two 

 wider bands have the same design, having a bar in the middle with its 

 ends bifurcated, known by the Tlinkit as "The crossing." The trian- 

 gles in these bands stand for " The salmon berrj^ cut in halves." The 

 middle band is "Tying around." The vertical designs at the bottom 

 represent "An eye" on one side, and on the other side "Shark's 

 tooth." The five-sided figure with a reentrant angle stands for "The 

 Arctic tern's tail." Catalogue No. 21560, U.S.N.M., collected by J. B. 

 White. 



The right-hand figure in Plate 72, Catalogue No. 20701:A in the 

 National Museum, collected by J. G. Swan, is a cylindrical basket in 

 twined weaving. The upper part of the body of this basket is divided 

 into three bands worked in straw, natural color, and dyed red and 

 brown. The symbols in the upper and lower band are (1) the " Spirit 

 voice, or the shadow of a tree," in zigzag lines; (2) vertical rows of 

 rhombs, which indicate the ej^e; the middle band, made up of sinuous 

 lines on rectangular figures is called "Tjnng around." The allusion 

 may be either to the fact that this figure constitutes an encircling 

 band, or to the sinuous pattern itself. On the lower part of the body 

 the fretted pattern, with three rectangles inclosed in the Ijeuts like the 

 bars on an epaulette, stands for "The tattooing on the back of the hand 

 of an old person." 



Plate 37 represents two small, beautiful l)askets with rattles in the 

 tops, made by the Tlinkit Indians of southeastern Alaska. Both of 

 them are covered over the entire surface with false embroidery in 

 thr^e colors. The small patterns on the baskets j^ortray the salmon 

 berry and the triangular figures stand for shark's teeth. These are 

 fine old specimens collected in 1875 b}^ Dr. J. B. White, U. S. Army. 

 Catalogue No. 21562. 



Plate 73. The bottom figure is a covered basket on the Tlinkit 

 Indians, Catalogue No. 168282, collected by Lieutenant Emmons. The 



