504 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



or the interior, or nowadays dyed in aniline colors. Formerly \'egetal 

 d^-es were emplo3'ed, red l)rown Oh',\\fA\\ {Thelci^pei'ma g7\ie(b:)\, dark 

 blue from seeds of Akaushi {HeJianthus 2x4toJaris)\ yellow from 

 Asapzrani {Cartlimnxis tinctorius)\ green or blue, rarely seen on old 

 l)askets. The following are their terms for basketry. 



Apa, blanket mat. (Anciently made in checker wu^aving.) 



Chu ku po eta, also Chu ku bot se buh, Havasupai. 



Shio en 3^a puh, Oraibi wicker tra}". 



Du tsi ye, or Du tsai ya, sifting basket. 



Ho a puh, carrying basket (wicker over frame of bent sticks crossed). 



Kom che, awl of bone. 



Hush tush shum pi, or Ko tuc, basket for parched corn. 



Kwakii iitshpi (hay cover), twined mat for kiva hatch. 



Pek ech be, piki tray (food tray). 



Po eta, basket plaque (coiled). 



Se boch be (Oraibi basket). 



Tiimni, flat basket in Soyalana rites. 



Wiko zhro, pitched bottle. 



Plate 215 is the portrait of Kuchyeampsi, the Miishongunuvi weaver 

 of coiled plaques. Figures and colored plates of this ware are shown. 

 (See Plates 30, 47, 8.5, 93.) Photographed by George Wharton James. 



Wicker baskets are made at the Hopi pueblo, Oraibi. The radiat- 

 ing franu^work is of slender shoots of siibi, RJniH frUolxifa. The 

 interwoven element is of branches of hanoshivapi, C'/tri/.s(>t/i<(miius 

 (/mreofchs^ also called Bigeloiu'a, carefulh^ smoothed and d3'^ed, as in the 

 coiled l)askets, red brown, red, yellow, dark blue, purple, green, 

 blue and white, the latter with kaolin. 



The white of the background is applied after the basket is tinished. 

 The edge of the basket is tinished with a Avinding of yucca over the 

 several rods of rhus bent down after the basket has reached the size 

 required. This edge is often painted with red ocher (Hough). The 

 framework consists of two cross sets of twigs, four or more in a bar 

 of the cross. These are lirmly held together at their intersection by 

 weaving. The}" are then spread out radially, the space ))eing from 

 time to time sui)plemented by additional stems. The worker pro- 

 vides herself with bunches of white, yellow, orange, purple, black, 

 blue, and green twigs only a few inches in length. These she proceeds 

 to weave into patterns of the greatest beauty, even imitating cloud 

 ert'ects seen on Japanese screens, using long or short twdgs as the 

 occasion demands, hiding the ends between the ribs and the filling of 

 the preceding coils. (See Plate 21G.) 



The variety of ornament created with these i)oor appliances is 

 mar\elous. In no other tribe of Indians and in no other type of 

 basketr}^ are more striking eft'ects realized. It seems almost as 

 though the women had set themselves the problem of producing with 

 the least ])liable materials the icost versatile of eft'ects, in which are 



