ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



as 5 



Frc. 121. 



TWINED WEAVE FROM ANCIENT POTTERY. 



Tennessee. 

 After W. H. Holmes. 



Attention is called to Plate cS in the Thirteenth Ijureau Report, where 

 is shown ancient twined work preserved ])y being- wrapped about 

 copper celts." (See iio-s. 1lU-1l>-J; also Plate lo7.) 



Plate L31 represents an open twined wallet of the Ojibwa Indians 

 (Alo-on(itiian stock), at Angwassag Village, near St. Charles, Saginaw 

 County, Michigan. 

 The native name is 

 Na iNIoot and it is 

 made from the inner 

 bark of the slippery 

 elm ( Ulnius (u n eri- 

 ca n a). Othe r bags of 

 the same technique 

 in the U. S. National 

 Museum are from the 

 elm bark associated 

 with red and black 

 yarn. The tech n ic of 

 these wallets is so in- 

 teresting in the sur- 

 vival of ancient weaves that they justify a special description. The 

 weft i.s plain twined weaving; all the ornamentation, therefore, is effected 

 by means of the warp, which is partly vertical, but more of the zigzag 

 type seen in many Aleutian Island wallets. In all of the specimens 

 examined the warp is made up of twine, partly in the material of the 



weft and partly in colored yarns. 

 The diametci' of the warp twine, 

 especially' the yarns, seems to be 

 greater than the length of the 

 twists in the weft, so that there is 

 a crowding which l)rings one color 

 to the front and leaves another 

 color inside— that is, the figures 

 that are l)rown on the outside will 

 appear in yarn on the inside and 

 the reverse. To be more explicit, 

 beginning at the lower edge of any 

 one of these wallets the Avarp may 

 l)e in pairs, the elements of which 

 .separate and come together alternately in the rows of weaving. On 

 the outside of the bag two elm-bark warp strands will be included 

 and appear; in the next half twine two yarns will be included and 

 show on the inside of the wallet. After this zigzag process goes on 



Fig. 122. 



twined weave from ancient pottery. 



Tennessee. 



After W. H. Holmes. 



« Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1896, figs. 21-26, and 

 plate.s VII and viii. 



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