BASQUE 



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BASS 



three rods. Coiled basketry is admirably 

 adapted to school and home work, and it lends 

 itself readily to the use of such home material 

 as grass, cat-tail and com husks. 



BAS-RELIEF, bah' re Ice}', which 

 literally low relief, is a mode of sculpturing 

 wherein the figures stand out but slightly from 

 their background. Strictly speaking, the pro- 

 jection should be less than half the thickness 

 of the figure, but if the work is artistic it may 

 appear to the observer to project considerably 

 more. A part of the frieze of the Parthenon at 

 Athens, the work of Praxiteles, which contains 

 the most famous examples of bas-reliefs in the 



Among the Indians coiled baskets have been 

 found so small that they would pass through a 

 lady's finger ring, while others are larger than 

 an ordinary barrel. W.F.R. 



Consult Mary White's How to Make Baskets; 

 Laura Rollins Tlnsley's Practical and Artistic 

 Basketry; William S. Martin's Inexpensive Bas- 

 ketry. 



ON THE PENSION BUILDING, 

 WASHINGTON 



Figures like these, representing an army on 

 the march, extend the entire distance around 

 the great building. 



world, is here pictured. These figures give in 

 every line the sense of movement. The horse- 

 men in the procession seem actually to pro- 

 gress, for the first horse has his leg raised but 



SECTION 



RIEZE OF THE PARTHENON 



BASQUE, bask, a brave, proud and inde- 



f people whom no invaders have 

 cru*l :.ll.,l from their native province 



in Northern Spain and the southwestern corner 

 of France near tin IVn nnes. They 1 



-od to mingle much with inhabitants of the 



neighboring provinces, hut liavrkrpt unchanged 



th' ir ancient customs, dress, and, above all, 



their language. This language, which so far as 



Mown bears no relation to any other, is 



spoken by perhaps half a million people. 



Th-'iiirh industrious and home-loving, the 



Basques make excellent sailors or soldiers when 



necessity arises. Ignatius Loyola, Saint 



Francis Xavicr and other famous men were 



s of the Basque province!. 

 The fitted, skirtless jacket formerly worn by 

 women everywhere- is called a basque, because 

 it was copied from the garb of the Basque 

 women. 



slightly, the second raises his higher, the third 

 still higher, somewhat in the manner in which 

 the very earliest moving pictures were made. 

 \:.To-I\n.ii:\o; Miv/o-Hn n \o. 



BASS, the name given to many species of 

 fish which differ in size, shape, color and mark- 

 ings, but which in >sscss one common 

 trait they arr all fighters, or name fish. They 

 may be divided into two great groups, fresh- 

 water and salt-water bass; it is the former with 

 which the fisherman is most familiar. 



Fresh- Water Bass, which belong to the sun- 

 fish family, arc chiefly of two species the large- 

 mouthed M irk bass and the small-mouthed 

 black bass; and of these it may be said that, 

 considering th- hoy arc among the gam- 



eat fishes that swim. Both species have short, 

 compressed bodies, and arc beautifully colored, 

 large-mouthed bass loves the quiet water 

 of a lak it lurks near shore in 



