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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



The principal dififereuce between the styles of baskets shown in Figs. 

 181 and 182 is in the size, the former being broader and flatter than the 

 latter, which is about 9 inches deep and 6^ inches in diameter. Fig. 184 

 represents a 12 by 12 inch twined circular basket made by the Chilcat 

 Indians with embroidered design on the exterior. Fig. 189 represents 

 a basket wallet of the same type as the above, but flattened into the 

 shape in which they are usually carried. The colors used in the 

 ornamentation are black and red. This style of basketry, as all others, 

 is copied by the Haida, who, however, use gaudier colors and are not 

 quite so expert as their northern Tlingit neighbors. The specimen 

 illustrated in Fig. 189 is No. 21560, U. S. National Museum. Fig. 190a, 





Fig. 189. 

 Twined and Embkoideeed Basket Wallet. 



(Cat. No. 21.'>60, U. S. N. M. Chilkat Indians, Alaska. Collected by Dr. J. B. White, U. S. A.) 



Plate XXXVII, represents a general type* of both Haida and Tlingit 

 open-work twined basket, the details of the twine weaving being shown 

 in b of the same plate. This is reproduced from Professor O. T. Mason's 

 article on '^ Aboriginal Basket-work" already referred to. 



Dishes. — In nothing more than in their wooden and horn dishes have 

 these Indians been conservative. Portlock and Dixon (1787), Marchand 

 (1791 ), and Lisiansky (1805), all describe the same types of household 

 utensils as are found to-day in this region. A few of the general va- 

 rieties of wooden dishes are shown in Plates xxxviii, xxxix, and XL. 

 These are usually carved from blocks of spruce wood, ornamented with 

 rows of shells, and have in more or less elaborate detail the totem of 

 the owner etched or carved upon them. Often the carving represents 

 some legend of the coast j again, a mythical animal. With regard 



