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decorate the centers. The margin i.s formed by l)raidin<>- down the 

 unused warp stems. Height is oi inches; diameter 5^ inches. Cata- 

 logue No. 10283. Collected by Livingston Stone. 



The middle ligure is said to have heen made by the Pit River Indians, 

 the warp and bottom being in soft rushes. The weft of the body is 

 in strips of rushes over which thin tilaments of scpuiw grass have l)een 

 wound. The delicate figures are in t)lack fern stems. Design, lizard's 

 feet, three in number, with festoons of short lines between. The 

 border is formed ])y braiding down the ends of the warp and holding 

 them in place l)y a row of twined weaving. This is a very common 

 method of treatment throughout this country. Its height is 3 inches 

 and diameter 5i inches. Catalogue No. 2()4"J10, U. S. National Museum. 

 Collected by Harry F. Liston. 



The lower figure represents a basket from the McCloud River 

 Indians, Copehan family. The warp is in small rods, perhaps of hazel. 

 The weft in twisted root of dark l)rown color. The first few rows of 

 twining, and here and there another row around the 1)ottom, are in 

 three-strand, the rest in double twining. The body is in the same brown 

 material wrapped with squaw grass, the figures showing on both sides. 

 The ornamentation consists of four rows of double rhomljs in l)lack 

 fern and one single row. Around the bottom is a double row in two 

 colors. The border is finished in one row of three-strand twine weav- 

 ing, the ends of the warp showing. Its height is -i.j inches and its 

 diameter 5 inches. Catalogue No. ll»341), U. S. National Museum. 

 Collected by Livingston Stone. 



Fig. Ill is a carrying basket of the McCloud River Indians, Copehan 

 family. The tribes of this family are described bv Powers under the 

 general name of Wintun. Those living on the McCloud Fork are 

 named Wiunimin, the meaning- of which term is North River. The 

 similarity of the McCloud River basketrv with that of the Pit River 

 people will be apparent. The technic, poorly shown, is in twined 

 weaving with a foundation of stems. The noticeable feature is the 

 overlaying of the filaments with grass stems or fern stems to produce 

 the ornamentation. The strength of the basket is in the weaving. 

 The bottom is cup-shaped, and for 3 or 4 inches is in three-strand 

 twined wea^'ing. The rest of the workmanship is in the ordinary 

 two-strand twine. In order to strengthen the basket a coil of rods is 

 sewed around the l)ottom for about a foot. The l)order is a strong- 

 hoop attached to the w^arp stems by bending down the latter and 

 sewing them in place with splints, forming a single row of coiled 

 work. The overlaying passes to the inside, so that the figures are 

 the same without and within the })asket. On the body the rhomboid 

 figures forming triangular ornaments are named in Mr. Dixon's paper 

 ''leaves strung along-." 



Plate J 76, Catalogue Nos, 19207 and 10281 in the U. S. National 



