COLLECTORS OF AMERICAN BASKETRY MASON. 



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water-tight vessel, the open meshes receiving- the pitch more freely. 

 The technic of the diagonal twined weaving consists in passing over 

 two or more warp elements at each half turn; there must be an odd 

 number of warps, for in the 

 next round the same pairs of 

 warps are not included in the 

 half turns. The ridges on the 



Fig. 19. 

 variety of twined work, outside. 



Am. Anthropologist, new. ser. 3, 1901, fig. IS. 



Fig. 18. 



diagonal twined weaving of the 



ute indians, utah. 



liept. U.S.N.M., 1884. pi. 21, fig. 11. 



outside, therefore, are not ver- 

 tical as in plain twined weaving, 

 but pass diagonally over the 

 surface, hence the name (fig. 18). 



This method of manipulation lends itself to the most beautiful and 

 delicate twined work of the Pomo Indians. Gift baskets holding more 



than a bushel and requiring months 

 of patient labor to construct are 

 thus woven. 



Fig. 19 shows how, by varying 

 the color of the weft splints and 

 changing from diagonal to plain 

 weaving, the artist is enabled to 

 control absolutely the figure on 

 the surface. 



3. Wrapped twined weaving. — 

 In wrapped twined weaving one 

 element of the twine passes along 

 horizontally across the warp stems, 

 usuall}^ on the inside of the basket. 

 The binding element of splint, or 

 strip of bark, or string, is wrapped 

 around the crossings of the horizontal element with the vertical warp 

 (fig. 20). On the outside of the basket the turns of the wrapping are 

 oblique; on the inside they are vertical. It will be seen on examining 



Fig. 20. 

 wrapped twined weaving. 



Kept. U.S.N.M,, 1884, pi. 13, fig. 23. 



