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EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



are shown in Figs. 181, 182, 184, and 189. These are made from the 

 fibre of the spruce root and so delicately twined as to be water tight. 

 The bottom is roughly made, the warp being of splints of spruce root 

 radiating from the center, and the woof of twine woven in the plain 



Fig. 185. 

 Coiled Basket. 



( Cat. No. 60235, U. S. N. M. Tinn« Indians, S. E. Alaska. Collected by John J. McLean. ) 



color of the material. The cylindrical portion above the bottom is also 

 in the plain color of the spruce root, but the " twining" is that of Fig. 

 Sic, Plate XII. Bands of red and black are woven into the structure 

 for ornamental purposes, the strands being colored on both sides. 



rig. 186. 

 Detail of Fig. 185. 



"Afterwards little squares or other plain figures are sewed on in 

 "aresene," that is, only half way through, giving the most varied effect 

 on the outside, while the inside shows only the plain colors and the 

 red and black bands."* In recent years the most gaudy and brilliant 



* Smithsonian Report, 1884, Part ii, Mason, Aboriginal Basket-work, p. 295. 



