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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



ihm kind of weaving. The wliole surface of it is covered with the 

 imbrication or a knife plaiting-, explained on p. 427, and illustrated in 

 figs. 52-54. 



Catalogue No. 2614, U. S. National Museum, shown in Plate 45, is 

 an imbricated basket made by an Indian of Salishan family, in Wash- 

 ington. It is one of the oldest specimens in the National Museum, 

 having been ])rought home by Captain C'harles AVilkes more than sixty 

 years ago. The material of the foiuidation and sewing is of cedar 

 root. The surface is covered entirely with imt)ricated ornamentation, 

 the body color l)eing produced by strips of squaw grass. The figures 

 are in cedar bark in natural color and dyed black by means of charcoal 

 and mud. The golden color in the straw filaments is produced by 

 longer innnersion in water. The most interesting feature in this 

 basket is the bottom, which is formed upon a strip of wood three- 



foui'ths of an inch wide and 6 

 inches in length. It is very closel}^ 

 wrapped or served with a splint of 

 root. Upon the margin of this 

 the coiled work begins, one round 

 being made in plain stitches. Af- 

 terwards the patterns are attached 

 immediately to this and extend out- 

 ward to a black line on the margin, 

 th(^ body of the l)asket being com- 

 pletely covered with other figures, 

 the ends dift'erent from the sides. 

 The border is neatly finished ott' in 

 false braid. There are about eight 

 rows of coiled work and from 

 twelve to sixteen stitches to the 

 inch. On the outsid(> the stitches are regularly split or furcated. 

 Length, 8 inches; depth, 4^ inches. 



Fig. 158 represents a specimen of twilled work by the ('lallam 

 Indians and should be compared with Niitka example, Plato 152. It 

 is made of fiat splints of white wood, resembling l)irch. The V)ottom 

 was woven first and all of the splints ])y ])oing hent upward ))ecome 

 the warp of the sides. Twilled ett'ect is produced by passing each 

 weft splint over two and under two warj) splints. The fastening off 

 of the upper border is done l)y bending down the warp splints and 

 holding them in place by a whipping of the same material. The 

 scallop on the upper border is formed ]\v looping the middle of two 

 splints under the rim, twisting botli pairs of ends into a twine, passing 

 one twine through the other, and doubling down to repeat the process 

 until the whole is finished. 



Illustrations of this method of makiii<>- twilled work are shown in. 



Fig. 167. 



imbeicated basket. 



CowlitK Indians. 



(Collected by Dr. J. I.. Fox, U. S. Navy. 



