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varied. Tliis iiietliod of coiled work, the tir.st descril)ed in the table 

 of methods (page 24S), does not occur again among the Inditius until 

 the borders of Mexico aj-e reached, wliere tlie tri))es in their carrying 

 nets, and farther south in their wallets and hanunocks, employ precisely 

 the same method of workmanship. This specimen, Catalogue No. 2023, 

 with several others in the U. S. National Museum from the Dog Rib 

 Indians of northwestern Canada, was collected by Bernard II. Ross. 



Warren K. Moorehead found examples of the muskemoot weaving 

 in the Hopewell mounds, Ohio. There was nothing but an easy por- 

 tage here and there to hinder passage by water from the mouth of the 

 Mackenzie to the neighborhood of the Hopewell mounds. Examples 

 in Peabody Museum, Massachusetts, and in the Field Columbian, 

 Chicago, prove the identity of technic. (See ligs. 115 and 110.) 



Fig. 115. 



coiled basketey. 



Hopewell Mound, Ohio. 



After C. C. Wilkmgliby, IVabody Museum. 



FlU. 116. 

 COILED B.\SKETRY. 



Hopewell Mound, Ohio. 

 After C. C Willoughby, Pealjody Museum. 



There is a general impression that th(^ baskets of the ordinarv soft 

 character described were used by these eastern peoples in the manu- 

 facture of pottery and were ruthlessW destro^'cd in the burning, 

 but Holmes's investigations tend to show that pliable materials had 

 been almost exclusively employed. In the Pueblo region the case was 

 quite different, though there is no evidence of the burning of the 

 basket. 



The twined wallets or other fabrics used were removed before the 

 vessel was burned or even dried. In many cases handles and orna- 

 ments were added after these impressions were made, also incised 

 designs were executed in the soft clay after the removal of the textile. 



It is quite evident that textile impressions were used to enhance the 

 beauty of the vessel, not to support the clay in process of construction. 



In man}" examples, notably the salt vessels of Saline River, Illinois, 

 the fabric was applied after the vessel was finished, inasmuch as the 

 loose threads sag or festoon toward the rim. Simple cord markings 

 arranged to form patterns have been employed on many examples. 

 And in those cases where basketrj^ textile was pressed on the surface 



