ABOKIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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Pitcher l)asket, with wide mouth. 



Plaques, for meal. 



Plates or platters. 



Pouehos. (See Cai)es. ) . 



Pottery. (See "Marks on Pottery;" also 

 used to line roasting trays (Crushing). ) 



Prayer basket, Pahos. 



Preparing food, mixing musli, bread, etc. 



Quivers. 



Receptacles of all sorts, f(ir cooked food, 

 dried fish, and all kinds of preserved 

 jneats and fruits. The basket maker 

 herself keejis her splints and stems in 

 a basket. 



Religion, nsed in services of. 



Roasting trays, for poacliing seeds. 



Robes of shredded l)ark. 



Roof of basketry. 



Sacred meal trays. 



Saddlebags, of late ai^plication. 



Sails, in both continents. 



Seats, at home, in boats, etc. 



Seed baskets, harvesting, carrying, and 

 storage. 



Seed beater, for harvesting. 



Serving food, for single persons ora com- 

 pany. 

 Sieves, for screening or for shaking. 

 Skirts, both of common and ceremonial 



dress. 

 Sleeping mats. 

 Storage, fish, berries, pemmican, acorns. 



All tribes stored some kind of food. 

 Trade, medium of. 

 Treasure baskets, those considered treas- 



m-es. 

 Trinket and feather storage, also herbs, 



gum, paint, etc. 

 Vizors of Katchina masks, made from 



segments of coiled basketry (I'tetype), 



Hopi. 

 Washbowl, in ceremonies. 

 Water bottles, drinking cups, etc., of lias- 



ketry dipped in ]»itch. 

 Water transi:iortation, rafts of cane, mats 



for sails. 

 Wedding blanket or cover. 

 Winnowing baskets for seeds. 

 Zootechny, or the arts associated with 



animal life. 



VII. ETHNIC VARIETIES OF BASKETRY 



For all arts belonging to humanity havo a common bond and aru included, as it were, in the same 



kinship. — Cickro. 



The technical processes, the decorations, and the synil)olism that 

 may exist in the single basket having- been scrutinized, it is in order 

 to examine the geographic distribution of these forms in relation to 

 ethnology and environment. Geography has much to do with human 

 enterprises. It does not furnish the ingenious mind nor the skillful 

 hand, but it does supply their materials for their exercise and set 

 bounds in which the mind and hand soon discover how to reach their 

 best. 



America Avas, in aboriginal times, unequally occupied by native 

 peoples. On the Atlantic slope in both continents vast areas were in 

 possession of single linguistic groups called families. On the Pacitic 

 slope there were also a few influential families, but the rule was 

 otherwise. Wedged in among the moiuitains wherever there was an 

 inclosure abounding in food supply there were crowded what seemed 

 to be shriveled remnants of once larger peoples, or fragments of dis- 

 rupted families. 



At once arises the query, Did they bring with them and preserve 

 uncontaminated the stitches and patterns of their priscan basketry and 

 keep the ancient models unchanged? It is to be feared that they did 

 not, and that is why the ethnologist becomes embarrassed in trying to 



