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])oi(lcrs iivv iill well done in false ])i-aiil. No more interesting speci- 

 mens are to lie found in this eollection. 



There are four other gam))lint'- baskets of the same typo, ])ut of 

 ditierent material, and are fairly made. The foimdation is a singlo 

 stem of, perhaps, willow, the sewing in the leuves of yucca ( V>ic<(/ 

 (f.d'((/is(//i((). Catalogue Nos. 1528(^2, lo^so;-), l(;;)24r), and KJnTHn, and 

 gathered from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowan Indians in Indian 

 Territory. 



Finally, modern pedagogy has found in the long leaves of the Geor- 

 gia pine a material by means of which poor people may weave a little 

 of the sense of beauty into their lives. 



Plate 128 is a covered basket, made near Augusta, Georgia, from 

 the leaves of the pine by a native Georgia woman, under the instruc- 

 tion and patronage of Mrs. Percy H. Ralx-ock. of Hudson, Ohio. The 

 sewing material is tough, brown linen thread. The interesting charac- 

 teristic in this specimen is the undesigned resemblance l)etween the 

 stitching and thiit on the Hudson Bay Eskimo specimen, as well as 

 the old Chippewa specimen in the Peabody Museum, in Cand)ridge, 

 Massachusetts. 



Coiled work, as was shown in the chapter on weaving, changes to 

 lace work by omitting the hard foundation. In this Eastern Area two 

 witnesses, far apart in time, are here to testify to the widespread 

 ancientness of a coiled work now universal in tro})ical Anuu'ica. 



Figs, a and /», Plate 12t>, represent the method of weaving in the 

 game bags, or nmskemoots, of the Dog Kib and othei' Athapascan 

 Indians in northwestern Canada for domestic pui'pos<\s. Th(\se tri])es 

 and their relatives in central Alaska use the ])irch-bark vessels for all 

 sorts of domestic purposes. For transpoi-tatioii they do not make 

 regular baskets, but buckskin wallets, in which a process of coihnl 

 weaving now to be described is employed. The sides and bordei's of 

 the game l)ags are of dressed skin of moose and reindeei-. For the 

 l)ody of the bag the same material is cut into tine string and rolled. 

 This material is called ■•' ba})iche.'' It is (piite evident that before the 

 introduction of the steel knife this material was nuu-h coarser, as may 

 !)(' known not only from the game bags, but also from the snowshoes. 

 By examining tig. h a small section from one of the nmskemoots will 

 show how the work is done. The border of the ])ag on its lower edge 

 is pien-ed at e([ual distances for the rece})tion of the tirst row of weav- 

 ing. Through these holes the babiche is stiauig by half hitches, or 

 what is called "" ])uttonhole stitch.'' Th(> work proceeds in the same 

 manner round and I'ound until it is desinible to make a variation in the 

 technical process. In the middle of the drawing* it will be seen how 

 this is done. The end of the l)a])iche is carried through a stitch in the 

 row al)Ove and twisted one and a half times al)out itself. As many 

 turns as is desirable can l)e made, and thus the ornamentation may be 



