ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 478 



Fig. 3 is a ])owl with plain center, excepting a short owner's mark, 

 and on the body an; two bands, each one decorated bv a thrcefokl 

 chevroncd pattern. It will ho noted that the oti'sets in the three bound- 

 ary' lines of the designs are exactly in line with the tinishing otf at 

 the upper border. This feature is often mentioned l)y basket collect- 

 ors among other tribes. 



Fig. 4 is another Panamint bowl, the interior d<>corated by plain 

 rings in black. From the l)ottom project four ('({uidistant wedge- 

 shaped designs decorated on the surface with rhombs in white. On 

 the border, the pattern shown in fig. 1 appears rectangular in form 

 with eight single chevroned designs on tht^ surface. One of the pat- 

 terns is abbreviated, and l^etween the two wedge-shaped designs on 

 the right side of the ligure is an arrow nu^tive which may represent 

 arrowheads strung or the feather of the arrow notched. 



Fig. 5 is another Panamint l)owl, with five wedge-shaped designs on 

 the l)ody. proceeding from a dark ring bordering the bottom. Each 

 design has outside edges bordered in white, with serrate edges in 

 brown and straight venations in white on the middle portion. The 

 little gi-oups of marks in threes on the 1)order have nothing to do with 

 the radiate pattern. 



Plate 184 is introduced here for the purpose of showing how the 

 colors mentioned in the foregoing pages are used in giving variety 

 and beauty to the surface of the ware in this area. The yellow golden 

 color is that of the usual sexting material. The black is produced by 

 the use of martynia. The red is from the Yucca ((r7jorc.sce/ix. In the 

 ordinary photographic plate the effect of these colors is lost, but in 

 the illustrations here given the full effect is brouoht out. Attention 

 is called also in the lower ffgure to the union of two methods of sewino-. 

 In the figured stripe in the middle, open sewing is shown, while on the 

 rest of the bod}^ the stitches are packed close together. It has Pana- 

 mint designs. On the upper bow 1 thev are Yokut, but the materials 

 of both are Panamint. The open weaving also and the shred founda- 

 tion point in the same direction. 



The following information concerning the basket tangle in this area 

 is from Mr. C. P. Wilcomb, of the Golden Gate Park ]Museum, San 

 Francisco. The Inyo and the Kern (Inyo-Kern) l)asketrv are virtu- 

 ally undistinguishable, the tribes are Paiute (Shoshonean). The 

 Tulare County basketry is that of the Yokuts, and is identical 

 with that of the Yokuts of Fresno Countv and of the Monache or 

 Monos (Shoshoneans inhabiting the headwaters of the San Joaquin and 

 Kings rivers). The Monache and the Fresno work are somewhat coarser 

 than that of the Tulare tribes, but in materials and shapes are identical. 

 The Kern tribes are mostly on upper Kern Kiver in the vicinity of 

 Kernville. 



