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EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Museum are labeled ]\IeCloud Iliver Indian baskets. They were col- 

 lected by the superintendent of the United States tish -hatching- estab- 

 lishment in northern California many years ago and doubtless were 

 procured from the McCloud River Indians. 



The upper tigure is an example of two-colored design in plain twined 

 weaving by simply hiding every alternate twist of the weft strands. 

 The lower figure is made in the same fashion with ])roken bands in two 

 colors, l)rown and yellow, but the border is finished ofl' by bending 

 down the warp stems and sewing with thread. 



Plates 177-1 7S, show the work of the Hat Creek Indians, Pakamalli, 

 who live on Hat Creek, a branch of Pit River in northeastern Cali- 



Fiii. 171. 

 CARRYING BASKET. 



McCloud River Indians, California. 

 Cat. No. 19290, U.S.N.M. Collected by Livingston Stone. 



foi-nia. They belong to the Palaihnihan family, which Mr. Gatschet 

 believes to be related to the Sastean or Shasta tribes. Dixon (1902) 

 places the basketrj' of these tribes in his northeastern group of Cali- 

 fornia tribes associated with the Klamath and Modoc (Lutuamian), 

 Shastas (Sastean, but probabh' Palaihnihan), Pit Rivers (Palaihnihan), 

 Yana (Yanan), Wintun (Copehan), and Maidu (Pujunan). Powers^' 

 characterizes the Hat Creek Indians as the most warlike in all the Pit 

 River Basin, and the one most dreaded by the timid aborigines of the 

 Sacramento Valle}' . These specimens are in the collection of H. E. 

 Williams. 



« Contributions to North American Ethnology, III, 1877, p. 274, 



