526 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



however, that Hudson mentions the same style of workmanship among 

 the Pomo Indians for roof building- and traps, and W. H. Holmes 

 brought from California a framework for carrying birds in which the 

 rods are held in place })y a similar wrapping. There is also in the 

 National Museum an old coarse mortar basket made of sticks which 

 are bound together in the same wa3^ A great deal of twilled and 

 wicker work comes from the neighborhood of the City of Mexico and 

 from Central America, and a species of coiled sewing which exists 

 vsporadically all the way from the Arctic Sea to Magellan Straits. 

 The stitch, in addition to passing around the foundations to hold them 

 together, also makes a wrap about the standing part between the coils. 

 Modern coiled ware in great quantities is made up from agave fiber of 

 fine quality, Init it resembles African work more than American. A 

 variety of forms and uses exist in baskets in Mexico; among others, the 

 innneuse liats. The Caribs on the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua are said 

 to have plaited a pretty water-tight basket of reeds, called "" patapee," 

 but these peoph^ had been in touch with natives of Africa, who knew 

 how to make water-tight ])askets from the time of Moses at least. 

 The Tlaxcala Indians used twined weaving in making slings. Types 

 of work just mentioned continue on into the Central American States. 

 No account is here made of the fine weaving and needlework, in which 

 typical and extraordinary patterns are wrought, because they are across 

 the boiuidarv line and are no longer in the famil\^ of basketr}- made 

 merely by hand without machinery. 



Twined l)asketr3' and matting are preserved in the Peabody Museum 

 from prehistoric burial caves in Coahuila, Mexico; among the Tlax- 

 cala Indians (Nahuatlan famih') in Central Mexico; from prehistoric 

 graves at Ancon, Peru, and Arica, Chile; from graves at Pisaqua, 

 Chile; from the Guatos Indians (Tapuyan family), in southern Brazil, 

 and from the Cadioes Indians ((luaycuruan family), on the Paragua 

 River. (C. C. Willoughl)y.) 



Plate 236, U. S. National Museum, was brought by Frank liussell from 

 the Yaqui Indians of northern Mexico. It is in the form of the so-called 

 ' ' telescope trunk," and old specimens of the National Museum were col- 

 lected many years ago l)y Edward Palmer. The material is a kind of 

 rush, and the weaving is in twilled work. Su(}h baskets are employed 

 for holding all sorts of useful articles, but especially in connection 

 with religious practices they are the depository of charms and fetish 

 objects. 



Plate 23T, in the collection of Dr. A. Hrdlicka, shows two covered 

 baskets bandbox shaped. Thej are made of palm-leaf strips in twilled 

 weaving. Hundreds of these objects are woven of various sizes, and 

 packed in nests, and are the common receptacle for all sorts of articles 

 among the Yaqui. Especial attention is called to the lower basket, since 

 it is an excellent example of what has been mentioned several times in 

 this work — namely, double weaving. Strips of palm leaf are worked 



