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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



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Figs. 138 and 13t> illustrate the method of making false embroideiy 

 on the basketry of the Tlinkit Indians, As the woman proceeds with 

 her work she wraps the grass stem once around each strand of the 

 regular twine when it comes outside. On the inside, therefore, there 

 is no appearance of ornament: the figure plainly shows how this work 

 is done and it might be called a type of three-strand twined weaving in 



which one of the elements passes inside 

 the warp. Ornamentation on this ware is 

 also produced b}^ dyeing the filaments of 

 which the basket is made. This specimen 

 is Catalogue No. 20726 in the U. S. National 

 Museum, and was collected by James G. 

 Swan. 



Fig. 140, from the Tlinkit tribes aljout 

 Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, is 

 a carrying wallet for general purposes. 

 It is an interesting and important speci- 

 men in that it forms the connecting link 

 between common plain in and out weaving 

 and twined work, both plain and twilled, 

 from the tribes immediately north and the Haidas. The specimen 

 is made of spruce root and the rows of weaving are alternately 

 twined and wicker over the entire surface of the wallet. In examples 

 already described this combination of two weaves was seen on the bot- 

 toms, for economy, but in this piece the whole surface was thus cov- 

 ered. The coarser type is shown in fig. 141 from the Tlinkit Indians 

 taken from the bottom of basket work inclosino- a bottle. It will be 



Fig. 138. 



false embkoidery. 



Tlinkit Indians, Alaska. 



Collected by J. G. Swan. 



Fig. 139. 

 detail of false embroidery. 



seen that the first few rounds are plain twined work; after that the 

 rows are far enough apart to allow an additional row of wickerwork 

 or beading. 



Specimen Catalogue No. 168163 in the U. S. National Museum was 

 collected in southeastern Alaska by Herbert G. Ogden, and specimen 

 No. 73755 Avas collected in Neah Bay, Washington, by James G. Swan. 



Plate 147 represents a group of the Tlinkit Indian basket makers. 



