394 



REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



orniimental. The same technic will be observed further on in exam- 

 ining- the workmanship of the Thompson River Indians in British 

 Columbia, and hy their neig'hl)ors, the Chilcotin, belonging to the 



L'-'/t'l','- "III.'' ■ 



Fig. 130. 



coiled m'orkbasket. 



Tinnu Indians. 



Cat. No. 24,'!42, U.S.N.M. Collected by Luc-ien Turner. 



same linguistic stock. The Eskimo woman also in making her coiled 



basket work splits the stitches of her coil and sews through them. 



This process is kept up on the ])ody of this specimen half the wa}^ up. 



Above that it ceases, as shown 

 in the square inch enlarged fig. 

 131. The coils var^^- considera- 

 bly in width; the stitches also 

 are not of the same size, so that 

 there is l)v no means the uniform 

 regularity, cither horizontally or 

 vertically, that one observes in 

 the California area. It will be 

 noticed, too, that the top of each 

 stitch is narrowed by reason 

 of the crowding. Over the en- 

 tire surface of this specimen 

 it is quite impossible to see the 

 foundation rod because of this 

 crowding of stitches. 

 This specimen, like many others from the Athapascan area, is jar 



shaped, and under good conditions would hold water. Catalogue No. 



24313 in the U. S. National Museum. Collected, with man}' others, 



Fig. 131. 



detail of coiled basket. 



Tinne Indians. 



Collected 1)Y Liicien Turner. 



