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The coiled baskets approximate more or less to an oblong spheroid 

 in shape and have a carrying handle of thong or plaited rush. They 

 are usually neatly made. The only instrument used in their manu- 

 facture is a bone or wooden awl. 



For the comparison of Fuegian basketry with half-hitch coiled 

 basketry from other parts of the world, see especially Mason, h and d, 

 and Graebner, c. Coiled carrymg nets, such as are found sporadi- 

 cally on the American Continent, are not reported from Fuegia. 



Buckets. — Cylindrical bark buckets are used by the Yahgans and 

 Alacaluf for carrying and holding drinking water. Bark buckets were 

 also used by the Chonos (Rosales, a, vol. i, 151; h, in Medina, a, 186). 

 The Onas ordinarily employ a skin bag for holding water (C. Gallardo, 

 288). 



Bags and pouches. — ^The Onas make use of more or less rectangular 

 envelope-like bags, usually of guanaco skin, for carrying small objects, 

 food, water, etc. (C. Gallardo, 286-288; Dabbene, h, 247-248). These 

 rectangular skin ''envelopes" are peculiar to this tribe. For the 

 smaller bags, fox skin or bird skin may be used (C. Gallardo, 287; 

 Cojazzi, ill. opp. p. 40). Other small bags made of bladders, intes- 

 tmes, etc., are used for holding oil or pigments (C. Gallardo, 286; 

 Cojazzi, loc. cit.). 



The Yahgans make little pouches of seal or penguin skin for holding 

 small objects; of the bladders or windpipes of seals or porpoises for 

 holding ochre and fire flints; of the crops of geese or stomachs of seals 

 for holding oil (Hyades, q, 306-307, 350). 



The Alacaluf use pouches of sealskin or seals' intestines for holding 

 small objects (Skottsberg, d, 602; Coppinger, 119; cf. also Vargas 

 Ponce, a, 343; and the bags for red earth found by Sarmiento near 

 Hanover Island, Iriarte's ed., 123, An. tiidr., vii, 446-447). 



Boxes. — Both Dr. Coppinger (119) and Dr. Skottsberg {d, 601) 

 report fuiding among the Alacaluf circular wooden boxes with lids. 

 These boxes, which contained small objects, like arrowheads, etc., 

 have not been observed among either the Yahgans or Onas. 



Pottery. — No pottery of even the crudest kind has ever been found 

 among either the Chonos (Goicueta, 484-485, Fallos Channel natives; 

 Ladrillero, 464, ditto, 473) or the Fuegians. Dr. Lovisato found 

 none in the Elizabeth Island middens; suitable clay is not, however, 

 entirely wanting in Fuegia (Lovisato, &, 103-104). 



Weapons 



The characteristic weapon of the Chonos, Alacaluf, and Yahgans 

 is the spear or harpoon, whde that of the Onas is the bow and arrow. 



Spear. — The spear is used both for fightmg and hunting by the 

 Chonos, Yahgans, and Alacaluf. The Yahgan shaft is said to be 

 octagonal to decagonal in section, the Alacalufan circular (Colini, 159- 



