iEOJIKTKIC CHARAfTER OF APPENDED FEATURES. 



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ai'e. however, attached iu ways consistent with the textile system, 

 and are counted and spaced with great care, producing designs of a 

 more or loss pronnnncorl ^-pnmotric character. The work is a kind of 

 embruidcry. tlir parts iMiipldynl Immiil;- of the nature of pendants. 



These include luunln'rless artirlcs derived from nature and art. It 

 will suffice to present a few examples already at hand. 



Fig. 313 illustrates a large, well made basket, the work of the 

 Apache Indians. It serves to indicate the method of employing tas- 

 sels and i-lustered pendants, which iu this case consist of biu-kskin 



Fig. 312. Basket w i 



strings tipped with cDuical bits of tin. The checker pattern is in 

 color. 



Fig. .313 illustrates the use of other varieties of pendants. A 

 feather decked basket made by the northwest coast Indians is em- 



FiG. 313. Ba.'iket with jiPmlants (.1 li i the northwe<it coast Indians. — J, 



bellished with pendent ornaments consisting of strings of beads 

 tipped with bits of bright shell. The importance of this class of work 

 in higher forms nf textiles maybe illustrated by an example from 

 Peru. It is pn.l.able 1lia1 A niei'lmn art lias i.ro.'lu,-,..! few examples 

 of tas.seled woi-k moiv wonderful than that of which a fragment is 

 shown in Fig. 31-1:. It is a fringed mantle, three feet iu length and 

 nearly the same in depth, obtained from an ancient tomb. The body 

 is made uj) of separately Avoven bands, upon which disk-like and 



