PLATE LVIII. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



FIG. 96. Woven basket of Micmac Indians made of white birch. Thousands of these 

 pretty baskets wrought into hundreds of shapes are sold in the towns and 

 villages of the Northern States by the Indian basket-maker. A curious 

 modification of this method of weaving comes from Tripoli, in which the 

 horizontal part is rigid and the weft straws run up and down. It is as if 

 we revolved the Micmac pattern 90 degrees. Collected by Mr, G. Brown 

 Goode, in Nova Scotia. 



