PLATE XIX. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 36. Coiled and whipped baskets from Hoochnom tribe, made of some species of 

 pliable root. The bottom is started upon a small flat Turk's-head knot of 

 splint f of an inch in diameter, and continued in a plane outward 4 inches 

 in diameter before any ornament is attempted. The coils are i inch in 

 cross-section and there are twenty stitches to the inch. There are three 

 pairs of the ornamenb on the exterior all alike. The harmony of geomet- 

 ric design ijroduced by inverting the triangles on the alternate sides is 

 much more expressive in the specimen where the brown-black ornament is 

 in contrast with the dark wood color of the body. This specimen should 

 be compared with Fig. 56. The patterns and designs in this ware are of 

 great variety and beauty, and the use of beads and feathers much improves 

 their appearance. Collected at Eel Eiver, California, by Stephen Powers, 

 in 1876. Museum number, 21371. 



Fig. 37. One square inch of Fig. 36, showing method of coiling with various colored 

 straws. 



