522 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



This specimen, Catalogue No. 0876 in the U. S. National Museum, 

 was procured in Arizona ])y Edward Palmer, and is fig-ured by Holmes." 



Fig. 200 is a coiled basket bowl of the Pima Indians. The founda- 

 tion is of shredded niaterial and the sewing is in splints of willow. 

 The decoration is in three series, as follows: Bottom, solid black; the 

 main portion of the l)odv" is a double row of fretwork in single lines 

 of black; <m tlic upper margin is a single row of fretwork. The up 

 and down lines in tiiis work are partly perpendicular and piirtly slop- 



FlG. 201. 

 COILED BOWL. 



Pima Indians. 



Oollecfed liy Kflw.ard T'ahiif 



ing to adjust themselves to the widening of the basket. On the 

 extreme edge, as a iinish to the basket, is a false braid in black 

 martynia. 



Fig. 201 is a coiled basket bowl of the Pima Indians. The founda- 

 tion is in shredded material of rush; the sewing in willow and mar- 

 tynia. The ornamentation consists of a black bottom, out of which 

 rise four right-angle triangles, to which are attached a curious fret- 



« Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1888, p. 220, fig. 322. 



