476 REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



pla}' games of chance. But far the long-est travel was from San 

 Fernando, San Gabriel, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Santa Inez. 

 Many came from there every j-ear to the Tejon, and we find unques- 

 tionable evidence in the meeting of all these streams in their basket 

 work. 



In a translation from Costanso (17f)9)" occurs this account of the 

 Santa Bar])ara basket makers: 



Ttiei^e are [the Indian women] who make the travH and vaHes of rushes, to which 

 they give a thousand different forms and graceful patterns, according to the uses to 

 which they are destined, whether it he for eating, drinking, guarding their seeds, or 

 other ends, for these people do not know tlie use of earthenware as those of San 

 Diego use it. * * * 



The large vessels, whicli hold water, are of a very strong weave of rushes [jum-o], 

 pitched within, and they give tliem the same form as our tinigas [water jars]. 



Plates 18S to 195 are taken from baskets in the McLeod collection 

 and cover the subjects of form and design in the Inj^o-Kern and Tulare- 

 Fresno area. They furnisli an excellent opportunity of seeing how far 

 a few simple geometric elements coml)ine in kaleidoscopic eU'ects in the 

 hands of the skillful Indian woman. Some of these specimens are of 

 exceeding delicacy, and it is a matter of wonder how so many little 

 stems of uniform diameter could be gathered together. Gauges are 

 out of the question. 



Plate 188, fig. 1, crenelated and chevroned designs; color, cream, 

 black, and red; diameter, 12 inches; dej^th, 9 inches. 



Fig. 2 is a very different pattern, resembling a pine tree; color, two 

 shades of brown, ])lack, and cream; diameter, 13 inches; depth, 10 

 inches. 



Fig. 8, diameter, 11|^ inches; depth, 8^ inches; 24: stitches to the 

 inch; very rich shades of l)rown, mottled, cream, and black. Pattern 

 very peculiar; so flexible it has been bent together; a most ))eautiful 

 specimen. 



Fig. 4, diameter, 11^ inches; depth, 7i inches; 15 stitches to the 

 inch; bod}', brown; design, black and cream; very rare. 



Fig. 5, diameter, 11^ inches; depth, 7 inches; 22 stitches to the inch; 

 color, red, black, and cream. 



Fig. 0, diameter, 13^ inches; depth, !t|^ inches; 24 stitches to the 

 inch; color, cream, and two shades of brown. 



Fig. 7, diameter. Hi inches; depth, 7i inches; 18 stitches to the 

 inch; colors, red, l)lack, and cream; very old; used to cook grulrs. 



Fig. 8, diameter, 10 inches; depth, 7 inches; 20 stitches to the inch; 

 color, black, brown, red, and cream. 



Fig. 9, diameter, 21i inches; depth, 15 inches; 12 stitches to the 

 inch; color, cream and brown. Very effective; thread even, well 

 made, l>ut not closely woven; the spirals are built uj) hy elongating 

 the little rectangles. 



«Land of Sunshine, XV, 1901, p. 39. 



