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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Pomo arc quite different from the Yuki and their congeners, being 

 simple, friendly, peaceable, and inoffensive. They are also much less 

 cunning- and avaricious and less quickh' imitative of the whites than 

 the lively tribes on the Klamath, to whom they are inferior in intel- 

 lect. As to their ph3^sique, there prevails on the Russian River 

 essentially the same t3qDes as that seen in the Sacramento Valley. 

 When first occupied by the European, the valleys inhabited by the 

 Pomo teemed with wild g-rasses and the streams were hedged in with 

 carex and willow. The native grasses have almost disappeared, while 

 the carices have given place in the lowlands to hops and alfalfa. 

 Man}" ranchers forbid an Indian to dig on their lands, thus limiting 

 the weaving-material supph' to outl3nng can3^ons or compelling a sub- 

 stitution of inferior material. Sometimes an indifferent worker will 

 use but one character of material in a })asket; for instance, the redl)ud 

 shoots for warp and the two contrasting sides of the cortex for pat- 

 tern. This method, called l)i-to'-i, effects looseness of weft and warp, 

 incongruity of colors, and instability of the vessel, and is strongl}" 

 condemned by an expert. Some weavers will conscientioush' refuse 

 to work rather than substitute liai (woody material) for ma-3'em' 

 (roots). The following notes by ,1. W. Hudson accompanied his col- 

 lection to the National Museum: 



Vegetal materials for Porno tiasketnj 



Indian name. 



Ka-hum' 



Tsu-wish'... 



Shi-kO' 



Bam 



Ma-16-ma-16 

 Ka-H'-she... 



Ka-wil' 



Bis 



Mu-16 



Pshu-bu'.... 



B;tm-tu 



Ma-shri' 



Scientific name. 



Caret barl)arir 



Carcx 



SalLv sitdicn-vs 



Sntix sessi/o/ia 



SalLv nigra 



Pinus sabiniana 



Pseudotsuga taxi f olid. 

 Pteridium aquilinum . 



Cercis occidentalis 



Corylus californica . . . 



Vitis californica 



Linum calif ornicum . . 



Common name. 



California .sedRe. 

 Black-rooted sedf: 



Sitka willow 



Hinds's willow .. 



Nut pine 



Douglas .spniec . . . 

 Brake or bracken 



Redbud 



Beaked hazel 



Grape 



California flax ... 



Prepared root. 

 Dyed root. 

 Prepared root. 

 Prepared stems. 

 Prepared inner bark. 

 Split root 

 Root. 



Prepared root. 

 Bark of shoot.s. 

 Stems. 

 Vine. 

 Prepared stems. 



Wilconib finds black desiijiis sewed in tule root and fern roots also. 



