COLLECTORS OF AMERICAN BASKETRY MASON. 



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Fig. 14. 



WRAPPED WEAVING. 



Pressed on ancient pottery, from a mound in Ohio. 

 3d An. Rept. Bur. of Ethnol., fig. 70. After W. H. 

 Holmes. 



Markings of wrapped weaving on potterj^ are to be seen in the 

 Third Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (tig. 14). This style of 

 weaving had not a wide distribution in America, and is used at the 

 present dnj onl}' in a restricted region. When the warp and the weft 

 are of the same twine or material and the decussations are drawn tight 

 the joint resembles the first half of a square knot. The Mincopies 



of the Andaman Islands construct 

 a carrying basket in the same 

 technic. 



E . Tio Ined or wattled hasl'etry. — 

 This is found in ancient mounds of 

 Mississippi Valle}^, in bagging of 

 the Rocky Mountains, down the 

 Pacific coast from the island of 

 Attu, the most westerly of the 

 Aleutian chain, to the borders of 

 Chile, and here and there in the 

 Atlantic slope of South America. 

 It is the most elegant and intri- 

 cate of all in the woven or plicated species. Twined work has a set 

 of warp rods or rigid elements, as in wickerwork; but the weft ele- 

 ments are commonly administered in pairs, though in three-ply twining 

 and in braid twining threse weft elements are employed. In passing from 

 warp to warp these elements are twisted in half-turns on each other 

 so as to form a two-pl}^ or three-ply twine or braid. According to the 

 relation of these weft elements to one an- 

 other and to the warp, different struc- 

 tures result as follows : 



1. Plain hvined iveaving, over single ivarps. 



2. Diagonal hvined weaving or twill, over two or 

 more warps. 



3. Wrapped twined weaving, or bird-cage twine, in 

 which one weft element remains rigid and the other is 

 wrapped about the crossings. 



4. Latticed tivined iveaving, tee or Hudson stitch, 

 tivined work around vertical warps crossed by hori- 

 zontal iveft element. 



5. Three-ply twined weaving and braiding in sev- 

 eral styles. 



Fig. 15. 

 twined weaving in two colors. 



Rept. U. S. N. M., 1884, pi, 20, fig, 39. 



1. Plain twined loeaving. — Plain twined weaving is a refined sort of 

 wattling or crating. The ancient engineers, who built obstructions in 

 streams to aid in catching or impounding fish, drove a row of sticks 

 into the bottom of the stream, a few inches apart. Vines and brush 

 were woven upon these upright sticks which served for a warp. In 

 passmg each stake the two vines or pieces of brush made a half -turn 



