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SO called among- this tribe. She also has about her, as a o-annent, a 

 deerskin decorated with long fringes of false l)raided work in straw, 

 the work done in a single strand. This photograph was taken l)y 

 Governor John Daggett, of Black Bear, California. 



Plate 172 is a portrait of Mary or Sheretta, a Klamath Indian 

 woman, using different forms of basketry in the milling and cooking- 

 industry. Acorns are picked in a gathering basket, brought home in a 

 carrying basket, ground in a mill with a basket hopper, the bitterness 

 leeched out of the acorn mill hxed in a l)ed of sand, dipped with a 

 basket ladle into a basket where it is cooked 1)y means of hot stones, 

 and afterwards served in dishes of basketry. This was also photo- 

 graphed ])y Cxovernor Daggett. 



The lower iigure is a Wintun woman on McCloud River, in northern 

 California, making a basket. The utter wretchedness and lack of 

 inspiration from the environment could not possibly l)e worse. The 

 Wintuns belong to the Copehan family. 



From Governor Daggett comes the information that the California 

 Indians about him make the frame of the coiled baskets of hazel twigs 

 skinned. The weaving is done with split ]iine root. The ornamental 

 patterns are produced by sour grass and maidenhair fern. The white 

 splint is dj^ed by being chewed in the woman's mouth together with 

 alder bark, making a kind of animated vat of herself. For the conical 

 carrying Ixiskct, the Hupa Indian name is As tini num. Papoose bas- 

 ket, locks too; soup cooking* ])asket, sal am Y)()ki; soup eating l)asket, 

 pas tarrum; large storehouse, sip nook; cover to same, ash roos; 

 mortar })asket with hole in ])ottom, kraam num; acorn sifter, a tiat 

 disk, ten na bra; acorn bowl, moo roch. 



South of the Hupa Indians is the liound Valley Reservation with 

 the following-named tribes: Concow (Pujunan); Little Lakes (Kula- 

 napan); Redwoods and Yukies (Yukian); Wailakis (Athapascan); Pit 

 Rivers (Palaihnahan), and the Nomelakis (Copehan or Wintun fam- 

 ily). A moment's thought will show why it is that varieties in basket 

 types come from this reservation. The Indian tribes of the neighbor- 

 hood arc mixed with those of the Sacramento Valley and Maidu or 

 Pujunan people east of the Sierras. With biological mixture there 

 has been corresponding fei'tilization of ideas. 



N. J. Purcell, for a long time agent among the Round Valley 

 Indians, describes the gathering basket as coarse meshed and I'oughly 

 constructed. He has sent to the National Museum an example made by 

 the Little Lake tribe. It is woven of sticks with the bark on, and is 

 very quickly made. It has a Inickskin string- attached al)out the center, 

 by which it is carried. It is used for gathering- acorns, nuts, grain, 

 etc. When filled, this basket is emptied into a large carrying basket, 

 this being repeated until the larger basket is tilled. 



The large carrying l)asket is alwa3^s put in some convenient place 

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