ABORIGINAL AMEBIC AK BASKETRY. 



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Structunilly, they are in plain twined weaving, with here and there a 

 row of Avnipped twine and false braid. In passing, it may be noted 

 that these Hupa babies are not strapped on a board as among- the 

 eastern tribes, nor are their heads bandaged as are those of the tribes 

 along the coast of British Columbia." (See tig. 107.) 



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Basket armor of the tri})es on the Pacific Coast is made of narrow 

 slats of wood, recalling those in the bottoms of some of the Lillooet 

 Indian basicets in British Columbia. The slats are associated with 

 straight rods of hard wood. These are woven with cords in regular 

 twined weaving. The twine is finely spun and laid on so as to produce 

 an ornamental effect upon the surface. This basket ornament has been 



Fig. 108. 



stick armor twined together. 



California. 



After W. Hough. 



found in caves of the Aleutian Islands, also among the Tlinkit Indians 

 of the Pacific Coast as far south as the Hupa Indians of the coast of 

 California. In some specimens wicker weaving takes the place of 

 twined weaving.^ 



An examination of Hough's Plates 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 11, and 15 will 

 show how the weft of twine in basketry is transferred to slat armor 

 worn anciently by the Tlinkit, Aleut, Takoo, Shasta, Hupa, and 

 Klamath Indians was held together. 



Fig. 108, reproduced here, illustrates one in which the twined 

 basketry was applied to this sort of armor. 



«See Report of the U. S. National Museum, 1887, p. 178, fig. 11. 

 & Walter Hough, Primitive American Armor. Report of the U. S. National Museum, 

 1893, pp. 625-651. 



