1892-93.] 



NOTES ON THE WESTERN D^N^S. 



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The TsiiKoh'tin and Carrier women now weave fairly good belts or 

 girths out of the yarn they get at their trading posts. But this is a new 

 industry among them and we need not tarry in its description. Suffice 

 it to say that they use wooden healds as those of the Zuni Indians. 

 Indeed, I think that the whole method of girth weaving is practically 

 identical with these two heterogeneous stocks. 



Fig. 148. 



The TsijKoh'tin women also weave or plait^mats commonly used to 

 spread on the floor or ground instead of a table cloth, the menu of the 

 family repast round which each person squats while partaking thereof. 

 The material is a sort of rush or juncaceous plant, the exact species of 

 which I could not determine. Matting is an unknown industry among 

 the Carriers and the Tse'k^hne. 



