PLATE XLI. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



FIG. 71. Coiled basket of Upper Egypt, made of bundles of palm-leaf veins, sewed 

 with strips of palm leaf. Introduced here for comparison with the Moki 

 work. Ornamentation in red and black. Along red or black strip of leaf 

 is laid on the outside of a coil and caught down by alternate stitches. The 

 varying of the number of stitches caught over or covered by these strips 

 produces a multitude of effects. These baskets are frequently pitched for 

 boats or Moses' arks. Collected by Dr. G. W. Samson, in Upper Egj pt, 1848. 

 Museum number, 74871. 



FIG. 72. One square inch of Fig. 71, showing the sewing and the strips of ornament. 



