ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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fio-s. ;»4-i)«), ])iit, as will 1)(^ seen, iinuunerable pleasinu- cit'ects are pro- 

 duced bv var_yino^ the color, the number, the width, and the direction 

 of the splints that are overlapped in the Aveavino-. Catiilooue No. 

 2350'.), in the U. S. National Museum, was procured in Washing-ton 

 by James G. Swan. Tt is io inches in height. 



^lyron Eells, long a resident among the Sound tribes of Salish, has 

 collected for the IT. S. National ]\Iuseum at ditlerent times many speci- 

 mens of theii- basketry. Tt was he that tirst noticed the great diver- 

 sity that exists in such small tril)es as the Twana, or Towanhoosh. 



Fig. 158. 



twilled basket work. 



Clallam Indians, Washington. 



Collected by J. G. Swan. 



They use in their work a knife for splitting material, a common awl, 

 formerh' of l>ono, in sewing their coiled ware. lie has seen the 

 woman using a small bone for pressing home her weft. This is rare, 

 for the fingers are usually emploj^ed for this purpose. 



Fig. 150 is a water-tight basket for cooking, marked Clallam. The 

 foundation is the single Hat strip type. Attention is called to the 

 ornamental effect produced in this work by the splitting- of tht^ under 

 stitch by the one above it. The noteworthy feature of this type of 

 basket, however, is in the occasional overlaying- of a filament of squaw 

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