holmes.] FABRICS OF THE LAKE DWELLERS. 413 



Olyoquot Indians, of Vancouver's Island. It is woven, apparently of 

 the liber of bark, both web and woof showing considerable diversity in 

 the size of the cords. The border has been strengthened by sewing in a 

 broad, thin fillet of rawhide. 



The beautiful mats of the northwest coast peoples, from California to 

 Ounalaska, are often woven in tbis manner, the materials being bast 

 grass, or rushes. 



The Lake Dwellers of Switzerland seem to have made a great many 

 varieties of cloth of this type. I have reproduced four examples from 

 the meat work of Dr. Keller. Fig. 88 is copied from his Fig. 1, Plate 

 CXXXV. It exhibits some variations from the type, double strips of 



Fig. 90.— Fablic from the Lake Dwellings Switzerland. 



bast being bound by a woof consisting of alternate strips of bast and 

 cords. It is from Bobenkausen. 



In Figs. 89 and 90 we have typical examples from the same locality. 

 The woof seiies seems to consist of untwisted strands of bast or flax. 



THIRD GROUP. 



A third form of fabric is distinguished from the last by marked pe- 

 culiarities in the combinations of the threads. The threads of the warp 

 aie arranged in pairs as in the last form described, but are twisted in 

 such a way as to inclose two of the opposing series instead of one, 

 each succeeding pair of warp threads taking up alternate pairs of the 

 woof threads, as shownin the section, Fig. 91. This is a very interesting- 

 variety, and apparently one that would possess coherence and elasticity 

 of a very high order. 



In Fig. 92 a simple scheme of plaiting or weaving this material is 

 suggested. It will be seen to differ from the last chiefly in the way in 

 which the woof is taken up by the warp. 



The ancient pottery of the Mississippi Valley furnishes many exam pies 

 of this fabric. It is made of twisted cords and threads of sizes similar 



