482 KEPOET OF T^ATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



The Serranos live on a .small reservation at San Bernardino and 

 on the Morongo Reservation in the San Gorgonio pass in southern 

 California. They are called Takhtani by Loew. 



The Coahuillas live in the Colorado Desert and the San Jacinto 

 Mountains. The word is also spelled Kauviiyah b}^ Gatschet after 

 Loew. Dr. Barrows thinks this to be only the German spelling for 

 Coahuilla (pronounced Kau-vii-yah). 



With them ho joins by speech the Indians of the missions north- 

 ward, making a Coaliuillian linguistic family; perhaps it were better a 



subfamily. 



CoalmiUimi fiHbfaniUy 



1. Coahuillas. Colorado Desert and San Jacinto ]\Iountains. 



2. Gaitchini. Osi'ar Loew'.s name for Neteia. 



3. Kechi. Missions of San Luis Rey. 



4. Kizh. San Gabriel Missior 



5. Luiseiios, {See Kechi.) 



6. San Fernando Mission. 



7. Serranos. 



8. Takhtam or Takhtem, Loew's name for Serranos. 



9. Temeculas. At Peehanga, 8 miles north from Lnisenos. 

 10. Tobikhar. Loew's name for Kizh. 



Barrows narrates that the Coahuilla basketry and that of the Diegue- 

 nos as well as Luiseiios is of the one California type, namely, coiled 

 ware, and fragments of similar technic have been found by Schumacher 

 in the graves of the Santa Barbara channel. He quotes Humboldt to 

 the eti'ect that the Indians j^resented the Spaniards "with vases 

 curiously wrought of stalks of rushes and covered within with a very 

 thin layfr of asphaltum that renders them impenetrable to water." 

 Lumps of the material are said to have l)een put into the l)asket with 

 hot stones and shaken with a rotary motion to distribute it. The 

 foundation of the coil is a biuich of grass, su-ul ( YUfa r!(/r'n.s). The 

 sewing material varies according to the color desired. The three-leaf 

 sumac {Rhus trilohata) gives a light straw color; these are dyed black 

 in a wash, made from the berry stems of the elder, hun kwat {Sani- 

 hucm). The other sewing material is a bulrush or reed grass {'/uncus 

 lesnerit, or Juneus rohuHtus). The scape and leaves are 2 to 4 feet high 

 or more, stout and pungent. A supply of these is gathered by the 

 basket maker and cut into suitable lengths. The woman then with her 

 hands and teeth splits the scape carefullv into three equal portions. 

 Near its base the reed is of a deep red, lightening in color upward, 

 passing through several shades of light brown, and ending at the top 

 in a brownish yellow. For d3'eing black, ngaial {Suedadijfusa) is also 

 employed, and Dr. Palmer also mentions a dahlia {D. jyoluadenid) as 

 furnishing a yellowish brown dye. 



The Techahet, use the reed grass {J\in<ms rolxiM'us) or the Rhus 

 trilohata^ and the tall thin grass ( V'dfa r'ujens) in a dried state for 



