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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



provided with a bail and hung up in the house or ramada to contain 

 fruit or veg-etable.s/' 



Fig. 174 is a coiled basket of the Coahuilla (Shoshonean family). 

 The foundation coil is of stems of grass; the sewing is in splints of 

 sumac {RJniH trllobata). The ornanientation is in stems of rush dyed 

 black with sea blite {Sueda diffimt). 



No special study has been made of the meaning in the designs upon 

 the Coahuilla basketry. It is impossible, therefore, to guess what the 

 combinations of parallelograms may mean. From the point of view of 

 elementary forms in d(^sign, it is interesting to note what diversities 

 of effects may be produced by variations in the form and composition 



Fig. 174. 



coiled bowl. 



Coiiluiillii Indians, California. 



Cat. No. ai787. U.S.N.M. Collected by Edward Palmer. 



of simple geometric patterns. Five of the ligures on the example 

 here shown are built up of rhomboidal elements and a single one is the 

 composition of rectangles in quincunxes. 



Fig. 175 is a view of the inside of the bowl, showing the ornamen- 

 tation, A square inch of coil foundation, made up of straws or small 

 filaments, is shown in fig. 176. This specimen, Catalogue No. 21787 

 in the U. S. National Museum, was procured in southern California by 

 Edward Palmer. 



Fig. 177 is an inside view of another specimen from the Coahuilla 

 tribe and made of the same material. It is possible that some of the 

 ^specimens from this tribe are sewed with splints of willow. It is dif- 



« David Prescott Barrows, The Ethno-Botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern 

 California. Chicago, 1900. Chapter IV ((luoting I'iuil Scliumacher, Humboldt, 

 Hugo Reid, Edward Palmer). 



