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BULLETIN 39, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



of ridges. It is possible also to produce diagonal effects in this type 

 of weavino-. 



Fig. 10. 

 wicker basket of the zunt. 



Kept. U.S.N.M., 1884, pi. 48. flg. 8ii. 



Wickerwork must have been a ver}'^ earlj^ and primitive lorm of 

 textile. Weirs for stopping fish are made of brush, and wattled 

 fences for game drives are set up in the same manner. A great deal of 

 the coarse basketry in use for pack- 

 ing and transporting is made in this 

 fashion. The Zuni Indians make 

 gathering baskets of little twigs 

 after the same technic, the inflexible 

 warp being made up of a small bun- 

 dle of twigs of the same plant. The 

 transition from checker to wicker 

 in some examples is easy. The mo- 

 ment one element, either warp or 

 weft, is a little more rigid than the 

 other, the intersections would natur- 

 ally assume a wicker form. 



The finest specimens in America are 

 the ver}^ pretty Hopi plaques made 

 of Bigelovia graveolens. Short 

 stems are dyed in various colors, worked into the warp, and driven tightly 

 home so as to hide the ends and also the manner of weaving (fig. 11). 



Fig. 11. 

 close wicker work of the hopi. 



Kept. U.S.N.M., 1884, pi. 42. flg. 74. 



