BASKETRY BOLO CASE FROM BASILAN ISLAND. 



By Otis T. Mason, 



Head Curator, Depdrtment of Anthropology, U. S. National, Ma»eam. 



In the department of anthropology in the United States National 

 Museum is a basketry toilet or bolo case of the Jacanes (Yacanes), an 

 aborio-inal tribe living in the interior of Basilan Island, southwest of 



Fig. I.—Jacanese bolo case. Front view, showing footing, .stained, carved, am> p.erced for 

 the inner body technic ; outer body technic, with horizontal, vertical, dextral, and 

 sinistral weaving : and border. showing hoop work, knot work, and braid work. 



Mindanao (Cat. No. 23908B, LT.S.N.'M.). Owing to the slight cloth- 

 ing there needed, it is the cu.^tom to suspend the receptacle for odds 

 and ends from the belt univer.sallv worn. It has the functions of a 



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