PLATE V. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 7. Coiled basket of tne Tinn6 or Atbabascau iDdiaus of Alaska and British 

 America. The warp or foundatiou is a single osier or spruce root, the sew- 

 ing is done with small splints of spruce root. The stitches vary from ^ to | 

 inch in length, and the splints from -,V to ^ inch in width. The stitches of 

 each coil are locked into the stitches of the coil beneatli in addition to i)ass- 

 ing under the fundamental rod. In some cases the Eskimo fashion of split- 

 ting the threads in sewing appears, but the evidence shows that the Tinue 

 were the teachers of the Eskimo, and the latter follow only the ruder work 

 of their preceptors. The general shape of this class of baskets is that of a 

 low narrow-mouthed jar. Collected by Lucien M. Turner, Lower Yukon 

 River. Museum number,. 24342. 



Fkj. 8. One square inch of Fig. 7, showing the method pursued in coiled basketry 

 with a single fundamental and a single splint of osier or spruce root. 



