460 REPOET OF INATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



here shown the coils are one-eij^hth of an inch in diameter, and there 

 are twenty stitches to tlie inch. The ornamentation appears to be the 

 usual California combination of mountain and coil plume. The use of 

 light and dark tilaments and the alternation of triangles and rectangles 

 on the two sides of the open space form a ver}- attractive ornament. 

 The use of shell disks improves the appearance of the object. Feathers 



are also employed on some speci- 

 mens from this locality. 



A s([uare inch shown in tig. 168 

 illustrates more definitely the de- 

 scription here given. 



This specimen, Catalogue No. 

 21871 in the U. S. National Museum, 

 was procured in Eel River, Califor- 

 nia, l)y Stephen Powers. 



Leaving the west coast peoples, 

 the next group of basket makers 

 will be found in the Oregon tribes 

 belonging to the Lutuamian famil}", 

 Fig. 168. namely, the Klamath and jModocs, 



DETAIL OF FIG. 107. .^^^^\ thc Sliastas, also A-arious bands 



of Wintun })elonging to the Copehan family. The basket work of 

 this middle region is largely twined work with overlaying. The 

 designs have been studied b}" lloland B. Dixon and will l)0 found 

 illustrated in Plates IS to 24 in his paper on the basket designs of 

 northern California." In the work here mentioned it is interesting 

 to find that the movement has been eastward, for quite a number of 

 these specimens figured as Maidu are very surely made under the 

 influence of tribes here mentioned. 



The Klamath Indians have their home upon the Little and Upper 

 Klamath Lake, Klamath ]\Iarsh, and Sprague lliver, Oregon. Their 

 name in their own language is E-ukshikni (Klamath Lake people). 

 The Modoc are termed by the Ulamath Jlodok7ii (southern people).'' 



Fig. 169 is a twined flexible basket of the Klamath Indians. The 

 bod}" is in plain twined weaving; the three elevated bands on the out- 

 side are in three-ply twined weaving, the efi'ect being that of hoops 

 placed on wooden vessels for the purpose, of strengthening them and 

 is very pleasing, ]^y choosing straws or stems of diflerent plants for 

 these three-ply bands the artistic impression is heightened. By twin- 

 ing dark and light colored straws in the texture and ])y varying the 

 number of monochrome or dichrome twines, charming eflects in endless 

 variety may be produced. 



« Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, XVII, pp. 1-32. 

 ^' J. W. Powell, Indian Linguistic Families, Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, Washington, 1891, pp. 1-142. 



