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the mill consists of a large basket at the bottom for catching the acorn 

 meal and millstone set in this for grinding-, a hopper basket, most 

 elal)orately made, resting on the rock to hold the acorns that are being- 

 ground. A similar hopper is shown below, both in its form and struc- 

 ture. The pestle for grinding the acorns and the broom for sweeping 

 up the meal complete the paraphernalia. Throughout the entire acorn 

 area implements resembling these will be found. 



The outfit for the Pomo acorn mush maker in Mendocino County, 

 California, is illi>.trated by V. K. Chesnut" in his paper on Plants 

 Used l)y the Indians of Mendocino County, California (fig. 71 and 

 Plates 13, 18), issued in 1902, by the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington. 



It consists of eleven pieces: The picking basket for the individual 

 gatherer; the holding basket for receiving the contents of number 

 one; the cone-shaped carrying basket, with headband; the granary 

 basket at the home, holding two or more bushels, many of them have 

 beautifvil covers; the basket hopper, open at the l)ottom to fit on the 

 mortar stone, the work of strengthening these tax the ingenuity of 

 the weaver; the mat for the meal to be placed under the millstone; the 

 sifting plaques, in openwork for coarse separating and tightly woven, 

 for shaking the waste over the edge; the cooking pot of the closest 

 weaving; the dipper; the eating bowls, and the daintily woven basket 

 hat. 



William H. Holmes illustrates at length the acorn harvesting and 

 milling industr}- in northern California, carrying and hulling the nuts, 

 pounding them in stone mortars, grinding the meal, separating the 

 coarse particles, cleaning the meal by shaking and blowing, leaching 

 in sand and using hot stones for cooking in basket pots.''^ 



Plate 97 is a group of baskets in plain-twined weaving (Bamtush) 

 in the collection of C. P. Wilcomb, of San Francisco, It consists 

 of a conical carrying basket, mill hopper, granary basket, and mush 

 bowl. The carrying basket is in plain-twined work throughout. Even 

 the narrow bands near the top are no exception, for though each 

 twist in the twine passes over two warp stems, on the next round the 

 same two are included in the twist above. Casting the eye upward will 

 show that in the upper band next to the border the same motive occurs, 

 but the same pairs of stems are not inclosed in the twist. The eti'ect 

 of this ornament is quite pleasing, as the two bands with intervening 

 space form an endless zigzag pattern. The border of this basket is 

 formed by bending the warp stems down as the foundation of a coiled 

 work which is strengthened by a hoop of wood. The bands of orna- 

 mentation on this and the other baskets in this group is explained 

 under "Symbolism." 



a Contributions to the National Herbarium, VII, jjp. 295-408. 

 '' Report of the U. S. National Museum, 1900, pis. 10-15 and 22. 



