418 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



The Wakashan weaving- is not confined to this particular technic, 

 but, as will be seen in the illustrations here shown (tig. 151), it is 

 checker work on the bottom, three-ply twine between, separating the 



Fig . 150. 



wrapped twined basket. 



Makah Indians, Cape Flattery. 



Collected by .Tames f}. Swan. 



checker work from the plain twine which completes the bottom. The 

 sides are built up of cedar-bark warp, both vertical and horizontal, and 

 a wrapping of golden-colored grass stems. These straws take different 



colored dyes readil3^,and so the Ma- 

 kahs have learned to ornament their 

 l^askets with geometric patterns in 

 black, yellow, drab, red, blue, etc. 

 The pattern, therefore, is alike on 

 both sides, although the wrappings 

 are, as in Clallam, Nez Perce, and 

 other specimens, inclined on the out- 

 side and vertical on the inside. The 

 rows of wrappings run at an angle 

 of 45 degrees, which separate the 

 elements, having a rhomboid ap- 

 pearance. 



This specimen, Catalogue No. 23846 



in the U. S. National Museum, was 



collected, with man}^ others (Nos. 



23343 to 23368), in Neah Bay, Washington, by James G. Swan. (See 



figs. 149-151.) 



In the Peabody Museum of Harvard University are eight old bas 

 ket hats, supposed, by C. C. Willoughby, to have originated among 

 the Southern Wakashan tribes, probably the Nutkas. Lewis and 



BOTTOM OF MAKAH BASKET. 



