ABORIGINAL AMP^RICAN HASKETRY. 477 



Plate 189, Tulare ])askets, %. 1, diameter, 2-2 inches; depth, 13 

 inches; stitches to the inch, 30; wood mottled, dark and lio-ht brown, 

 and red. One of the ver^^ old style of flexible oam})ling- baskets. It 

 would be possible to bend it together. The variety of t'tfects here 

 shown by t\\v mere use of the broken line must bo noted. 



Fig. 2, bottle, diameter, S^ inches; depth, 3^ inches; diameter of 

 neck, 2f inches; IT stitches to the inch; color, l)lack, red, and wood 

 dark with age. 



Fig. 3, diameter, inches; depth, iH inches; 22 stitches to th(^ inch; 

 color. In-own, red, and Avhite. 



Fig. 4, diameter, S inches; depth, 4^ inches; neck, 3f inches; 

 22 stitches to the inch; color, cream, red, and brown. Red wool and 

 quail plumes. 



Fig. 5, diameter, inches; depth, <! inches; 14 stitches to the inch; 

 color, ])lack and natural-w^ood color; vei'y old. The white woman 

 from whom Mr. McLeod purchased this ])asket had owned it for tifty 

 years. 



Fig. 0, diameter, 15 inches; depth, d inches; 14 stitches to the inch; 

 color, brown, red, and mottled wood. 



Fig. 7, diameter, 8 inches; depth, S inches; 22 stitches to the inch. 



Plate 190, group of l)askets from Tejon, Kern Count3\ Fig. 1, 

 diameter, 13 inches; depth, 7i inches; 18 stitches to the inch; color, 

 cream, black, i"ed, and broAvn. 



Fig, 2, mortar basket; diameter, 17 inches; depth, 8 inches; color, 

 cream. 



Fig. 3, diameter, 12^ inches; depth, 7 inches; 24 stitches to the inch; 

 color, black, brown, red, and cream; very old and tine specimen. 



Fig. 4, diameter, 7 inches; depth, 3f inches; 20 stitches to the inch; 

 color, black, brown, and cream, with spots of yellow-hammer quill. 



Fig, 5, diameter, 4^ inches; depth, 3^ inches; 30 stitches to the inch; 

 color, cream and brown; very old and most beautifully made. 



Fig. <), ol)long; length, 13 inches; width, 12 inches; depth, (» inches; 

 18 stitches to the inch; color, ]>rown and cream. A very pecidiar 

 basket, as the pattern is so allied to those of Arizona and New Mexico, 



Fig. 7, diameter, 5 inches; height, 3 inches; 24 stitches to the inch; 

 color, dark wood, cream, brown, and white, with dots and rim of red 

 wool. This was a birth-gift l)asket, being presented tilled with silver 

 coins to an Indian w'oman from whom it was purchased at the birth of 

 one of her daughters, who is now 40 years old. The giver was Sabas- 

 tian, Cxeneral Fremont's guide. 



Fig. 8, diameter, iU inches; height, 5i inches; 21 stitches to the inch; 

 color, black and cream; very old. 



Fig. 9, diameter, 12 inches; circumference. 38 inches; depth, 7i 

 inches; 15 stitches to the inch; color, black, brown, cream, and 

 mottled wood. 



