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tribes farther west. Catalogue Nos. 2(»484:fi, ;-'.6i>44, 35435, U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Plate 180 is one of the best specimens in Mrs. A. C'ohn's collection 

 in Carson City, Nevada. The symbol on the surface is a collection of 

 points meaning ''clear skies, good weather.'' Mrs. Cohn finds varia- 

 tions in these, the number of points ranging from three to seven. In 

 some examples they are contiguous; in others s(»parated by narrow 

 spaces. 



Plate ISl is a picture of Datsolallee, the maker of the linest 

 specimens of Washoe basketry. She is hokiing in her left hand the 

 bowed stick in shape of a racquet, with which hot stones are taken 

 from the fire to be placed in the basket of mush in order to cook 

 it. The svmbols shown on the various baskets at her feet represent 

 men, women, snakes, arrows, wind, weather symptoms, morning, and 

 migrating. 



Plate 182. upper figure, shows a basket bowd of the Washoe Indians, 

 collected by Eugene Mead. The foundation is the three-rod style in 

 willow. The sewing is done in splints of the same material. The 

 ornamentation on the l)ottom is a many pointed star in brown cercis. 

 On the ])ody there are three circles made up of isosceles triangles in 

 the same. Two of the rows on the body of the basket are so arranged 

 as to have a narrow ))elt of white between them, the points of one 

 being downward and the other upward. This form of ornamentation 

 is suggestive of the patterns on the sewed coils of the Navaho basket 

 bowls. The border is plain coiled sewing. Its diameter is 8f inches, 

 and height 3^ inches. 



Plate 182, lower figure, is a basket bowl. Catalogue No. 204853, 

 U. S. National Museum, coiled work from In,yo County, California, 

 tribe not positively known. There are four sets of ornamentation on 

 the side in step pattern in threes, done in sewing splints dyed black. 

 The most interesting feature of the basket is the border, which is in 

 false braid, made of a single splint wrapped over the upper founda- 

 tion, forward, under, and back, over again and down beneath the two 

 foundation rows, making a figure 8. 



The southern portion of the Oregon-California basket area is 

 bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean and there was little encour- 

 agement to venture beyond the shore line except in San Francisco Bay 

 and around the Santa Barbara Islands. On the north of it are the 

 Maidu, Copehan, and the Yukian families. On the south and forming 

 a part of the subarea itself are the Missions, some of which belong to 

 the Yuman family, the southern boundary of the area. The great 

 Shoshonean family has pushed across the drainage of the interior 

 basin to the coast at Santa Barbara. This southern region is a long 

 rectangle inclined toward the west. Its axis would be a meridian 

 through diagonal corners. The eastern portion is Shoshonean terri- 



