ABORIGINAL AMERirATST BASKETRY. 



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work made up of L-shapo elemeiit.s. There are a number of .smaller 

 rioht -angle triaiioles worked into the tig'ures at various points, show- 

 ing that this is a constant idea in the mind of the manufacturer. 

 Diameter, V2^ inches; height, J-f inches. 



This specimen, Catalogue No. 76040 in the V. S. National Museum, 

 was collected, with many others, in Arizona ])v Edward Palmer. 

 Plate 233 is a piece of the same ty])e from the collection of C'. E. 

 Rumsey. 



Plate 234 represents two Pima basket bowls in tlie L'. S. National 

 ]\luseuni, collections of the Bureau of Ethnology, by Dr. Frank Rus- 

 sell. The foundation, sewing, and border are th(^ same as in other 

 examples. This j^late is introduced for the purpose of showing how 

 the basket maker works out 

 a seriesof concentric ligur(^s 

 whose elements are sti'aight 

 lines mixed with segments 

 of circles. The lower tigu re 

 is l)ased on a circle in })lack 

 from which four points pn > ■ 

 jtM't. The concentric rings 

 are based upon this funda- 

 nuMital tigure al)solutely. 

 From the points segments 

 of circles increase in length 

 as they proceed outward. 

 From the concaye (piarter 

 of the central tigure circu- 

 lar segments decrease in 

 length as they proceed 

 outward and the ends of 

 these two sets of segments 

 are connected b}^ ragged 

 straight lines. Finally the 



spaces at the four quarters on the rim are tilled with small triangles 

 in black. Could anything- be more artistic than this association of the 

 simplest elements in basket weaying? 



The upper tigure is on the same sort of foundation, only concentric 

 segments alternate with series of rectangles arranged in checker pat- 

 terns. These rectangles are all the same size, and are based on the 

 four quarters projecting- from the black circle. The widening of 

 the pattern is all accomplished by the lengthening of the circular 

 segments." 



Fig. 202 is a coiled basket bowl of the Pima Indians, Piman family, 

 in southern Arizona. The foundation of the coil is in stems of tinely 



COILED BOWI,. 



Pini;i Inilians. 



.llwtf-.l liy K.lwMr.i V:i\nu 



"Frank Russell, Annual Keport of the i->ureau of Etlmology (in preparation). 



