PLATE XXX. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



FIG. 56. Coiled basket bowl, made by Yokuts Indians, and here introduced for com 

 parison with Apache work. This is by far the most elaborate piece of 

 basketry in the National Museum. The bottom is plain and flat, bounded 

 by a black line. The body color is that of pine root long exposed ; the 

 ornaments are in black, straw color, and brown. To understand this 

 complex figure we must begin at the bottom, where 5 barred parallelo 

 grams surround the black ring, with center of brown, and generally four 

 smaller bars of white and black alternating. By a series of steps or gra- 

 dines this rectangular ornament is carried up to the dark line just below 

 the rim. The spaces in the body color, at first plain, are occupied after 

 wards by open crosses, and finally by human figures. These human fig 

 ures are excellent illustrations of the constraining and restraining power 

 of material and environment in human achievement. There are 8 coils 

 and 18 stitches to the inch. Figure, a truncated cone ; width, 16$ inches ; 

 depth, 7| inches. Collected in California, by Stephen Powers, in 1875. 



