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The woof is twisted, but the strands are spaced only a little over a 
quarter of an inch apart. 
A bag obtained at St Michael by Mr L. M. Turner (figure 9, plate 
LXXIV) is somewhat similar to the preceding specimens, but the warp 
is divided alternately by the twisted strands of the woof, forming a 
slightly zigzag pattern from near the mouth to the edge of the bottom, 
where the warp extends again in parallel lines. 
A closely woven bag, intended to hold clothing (figure 13, plate 
LXXIV), is from the lower Kuskokwim. It is made like the example 
from St Michael, except that the solid weaving of the sides extends to 
the braid at the mouth. The warp extends up and down the sides, as 
usual, and the strands of the woof are woven close together, forming 
a compact, thick texture. Several black lines of varying width extend 
around the bag, and are made by interweaving strands of blackened 
sinew cord. This pattern and another of ornamental black bands are 
made in the country between Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers and thence 
southward to Bristol bay. One specimen from the latter locality, in 
addition to the black lines, has three broken bands of russet brown, 
made by drawing small strips of brown leather through the warp. 
From the lower Kuskokwim was obtained also a grass bag, 11 inches 
in height and 15 inches across the bottom, woven in the same mauner 
as the last specimen. It is circular in shape around the sides and 
widest near the bottom, narrowing gradually to near the top, which is 
suddenly constricted to an opening five inches in diameter. 
The people of the lower Yukon and thence northward to Kotzebue 
sound make various sizes of grass baskets of a coil pattern. A strand 
of grass is laid in a coil forming the warp, the woof is then woven in 
by interlacing grass stems, and the coil is continued until the flat bot- 
tom is completed. The coils are then superimposed one upon the other 
until the basket is built up to the top, where it is narrowed in to form 
a circular, oval, or square opening. Frequently the coil is commenced 
on the bottoin around a vacant space, from an inch to three inches in 
diameter, into which is sewed a piece of rawhide. The rim at the top 
has the grass brought over and neatly turned in on the under side, 
forming a smoothly finished edge. ; 
One of these baskets (number 48159), used for storing clothing and 
various small articles, which was obtained from the mouth of the Yukon, 
measures 1035 inches in height by 13 inches in width, with an opening 
at the top 10 inches in diameter. A basket of this description from 
Kushunuk (figure 7, plate Lxxtv) is roughly quadrate in outline, with 
rounded corners; it has the bottom woven in the same manner as those 
of the bags which have been described. Another basket, obtained on 
Putnam river by Lieutenant Stoney (figure 10, plate LXx1v), has a flat 
bottom, with a long, oval piece of rawhide in the center; the sides 
round gradually upward to an oval opening. 
A basket from St Michael (figure 1, plate LXxrv) has a flat bottom, 
