ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



Animal materials for Porno hasketry 



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Ka-huni' is split into strings or flat splints and kept wet during- the 

 process of construction. Color, light tan or white. Used in scAvino" 

 coiled basketrv. 



Tsu-wish' is buried with ashes for a))out eighty hours, thus dyeing 

 to shades of ))lack; then split into splints like Ka-huni'. 



Shi-ko, split into splints. Whole stems are used for fish weirs; 

 color, cream. 



Bam. 1. Young shoots decorticated and polished for foundation of 

 coiled basketrv; color, straw. 



2. Splittings from bark of young shoots. 



r>. Splittings of young shoots. 



]VIado-mado. Inner bark strips; color, dark tan 



Ka-li-she. Split root; color, butf. 



Ka-wa. Split root, trimmed limbs; color, gray. 



Bis. C'hewed and cleansed root, split; black. 



Mu-le. Bark of shoots, split into tape with a bit of wood adhering; 

 l)urnt-sienna color. Used in sewing coiled basketry. 



Bshu-ba. Trimmed stems. 



Bam-tu. Vine, used rough or decorticated. 



Ma-sha. Crushed, hackled, and coml)ed. 



Ka-ya. Manufactured from clam shells; current among the Indians 

 as ''Indian silver."' Monotic base. 



Po. Magnetite, mined in Lake County, California. Heated dull 

 red, then tempered in hot water. Knapped and scoured into cylinders. 



Bored. Current as Indian gold. Monetic base. 



All prepared vegetals turn dark with age, and especially l)y the 

 smoke from the open fires in Indian huts. 



Tsu-wish ranks first in value- a l)unch equals lOO Ka-ya. A bunch 

 of Ka-hum equals (!5 Ka-ya; i\Iu-le, 20 Ka-ya. 



