ABOEIOINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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the lake were sliown. Other women have learneil the pattei-n all down the ages, hut 

 only very few are now left who can weave a faiiltles-s hasket and a i>erfeet imitation 

 of chato timus. 



Tho locality whero the .story was learned is Luinini Island. Bellino-- 

 hani Ba}', Washing-ton. The pattern referred to is similar to that 

 shown in lig*. 281», of the Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of 

 Ethnolooy. 



Fig. 156 represents a tine old piece of Yakima coiled and iml)ricated 

 l)asket, Catalogue No. 2.3S72 in the U. S. National Museum, collected 

 l)y James H. Wilbur. The foundation and sewing are in split root, 

 prol>al)ly cedar. The sewing is entirely overlaid and concealed by 

 sti-ips of s([uaw grass laid on in tho manner explained on page 427. 

 The ])order is especially interesting, connected structurally with 



Fig. 156. 



imbricated basket. 



Yakima Indians, Washington. 



After W. H. Holmes. 



examples from California wnd Peru (See Plate 248). It is in open 

 coiled work, the foundation l)eing wrapped, bent in a regular sinuous 

 pattern and sewed down here and there. The tlesig-n, according- to 

 Mrs. Judge Burke, represents a tlock of geese migrating. Its height 

 is 7i inches. (See tig. 159 and Plate 35). 



Fig. 157 is an old example of im})ricated ])asketry from Washing-ton, 

 collected by Dr. J. L. Fox, U. S. Navy, of the Wilkes Exploring 

 Expedition, Catalogue No. 2137. Such work is now generally called 

 Klikitat, and the Indians of that stock are expert in the use of it; but 

 the exploring- expedition did not come in contact with tribes so far in 

 the interior. The Salish Indians on Puget Sound make the same type of 

 work, and it is known that the very best come from the Cowlitz coun- 

 try, so that this is prolmbly a very old piece of Cowlitz basketry in 



