COLLECTOES OF AMERICAN BASKETRY. 



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Fig. 28. 

 overlaid twined weaving. 



6th An. Rept.. Bur. Ethnol., p. 230, flg. 336, after W. H. Holmes, 



of false embroidery in which the figures appear on the outside of the 

 basket but not on the inside. In the needlework of the civilized 

 woman the laying of this third element would be called embroidery, 

 but the Indian woman twines it into the textile while the process of 

 basket making is going on; that is, when each of the weft elements passes 



between two warp rods out- 

 ward, the colored or overlaid 

 element is wrapped around 

 it once. Straws of different 

 colors are employed (fig. 28). 

 (d) Frappedhasketry ^'^V.o- 

 komish type. — An interest- 

 ing modification of this Tlin- 

 kit form of overlaying or 

 false embroidery occurs 

 occasionally among the Pomo 

 Indians under the name of 

 hog or hag^ and it is fully ex- 

 plained and illustrated by 

 James Teit in his Memoir on 

 the Thompson River Indians.^ In this Thompson River example 

 the twine or weft element is three-ply. Two of them are spun from 

 native hemp or milkweed, and form the regular twined two-ply 

 weaving. Around this twine the third element is wrapped or served, 

 passing about the other two and between the warp elements, and 

 then the whole is pressed down close to 

 the former rows of weaving. On the 

 outside of this bag the wrapping is diag- 

 onal, but on the inside the turns are per- 

 pendicular. The fastening off is coarsely 

 done, leaving the surface extremely 

 rough. I am indebted to Dr. Franz 

 Boas for the use of Mr. Teit's figure. 

 This combination is extremely interest- 

 ing. The author says that it "seems to 

 have been acquired recently through in- 

 tercourse with the Shahaptins." A little 

 attention to the stitches will show that 

 the bags and the motives on them are 

 clearly Nez Perces or Shahaptian, but 

 the wrapping of corn husk outside the twine are not done in Nez 

 Perces fashion, but after the style of the Makah Indians of Cape 

 Flattery, who are Wakashan (fig. 29). 



^ Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, II, New York, 1900, fig. 

 132, p. 190. 



Fig. 29. 



frapped twined work. 



Thompson Kiver Indians, British Columbia, 



after James Teit. 



