ABORIGINAL AMEEICAN BASKETRY. 



415 



Special attention slioiild l)e paid to the fact that the oruamentation 

 on these hats is painted and not woven. 

 (Sec tig-. 143.) Not far awa}^ on the 

 mainland, the same motives appear on 

 l)lankets, woven into the texture. Fig-s. 

 143 and 144 show the head, wing-s, feet, 

 and tail of the duck, laid on in black 

 and riMl in the conventional manner 

 of ornamentation in vogue among the 

 Haidas and used in the reproduction 

 of their various totems on all of their 

 houses, wood and slate carvings, and 

 the ornamentation of their implements." 

 Shells, l)eads, and feathers are often 

 sewed on in profusion. 



Catalogue No. 88064, collected by 

 J. G. Swan, is a twined openwork bas- 

 ket of spruce root made l)y the Haida 

 Indians. This piece of coarse work- 

 manship shows both phases — the open 

 and the close weave in rough inner 

 splints. The handle is a twine of the 

 same material fastened into the weaving 

 while it is in progress. The border is 

 effected by bending down the warp ele- 

 ments at the rim externally and sewing 

 them in place with a row of twined 

 weaving. 



A square inch of this specimen taken 

 near the top, where the open work and 

 the close work come together, is shown. 

 (See ligs. 14.5, 140.) 



Fig. 14T shows an uniinished llaida 

 cylindrical basket. In order to explain 

 the process of manufacture, the bottom 

 is in plain twined weaving; at the ])order 

 where this joins the cylindrical side is a 

 row of three strand; and four rows of 

 plain twined weaving of the ])ody come 

 next, the uniinished portion exhibiting 

 the warp as it appears before weaving. 



Fig. 147 



UNFINISHED BASKET. 



Haida Indians. 



CoUecteil by James G. Swan, 



" A very interesting instance of survival is to be seen in the rag carpets of these 

 Indians. The missionaries have taught the women to save up their rags and to cover 

 their floors with pretty mats. They are allowed to weave them in their own way, 

 however, and the result is constructed on the ancient twined model, precisely as the 

 weaving is done on the mats and hats. 



