[25] BULLETIN 39, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



baskets of the Pima a bundle of straws furnishes the foundation, 

 while the sewing is done with broad strips of toug-h bark, as in fig. 39. 

 In the Fuegian coiled basketry, of which a figure is given, the 

 sewing is done with rushes, but instead of being in the ordinary 

 over-and-over stitch it consists of a series of half hitches or button- 

 hole stitches (fig. 41). 



Among the basketry belonging to the grass-coil foundation type are 

 the Hopi plaques, built upon a thick bundle of the woody stems of the 

 yuccas, which furnish also the sewing material from the split leaf 

 (fig. 40). If this be examined in comparison with a style of basketry 

 found in Egypt and in northern Africa as far as the Barbary states, 

 great similarity will be noticed in the size of the coil, the color of the 

 sewing material, the patterns, and the stitches. The suggestion is 

 here made that this particular form of workmanship may be due to 



Fig. 39. 

 open coil inclosing part of foundation. 



Kept. U.3.N.M., lS8i, pi. 37. flg. 38. 



Fig. 40. 

 intekj,ocking coils, shred foundation. 



■Kept. U.S.N.M., 1884, pi. 39. fig. 69. 



acculturation, inasmuch as this type of basketry is confined in America 

 to the Hopi pueblos, which were brought ver}" early in contact with 

 Spaniards and African slaves. 



K. Fuegian coiled hasketry. — In this ware the foundation is slight, 

 consisting of one or more rushes ; the sewing is in buttonhole stitch or 

 half -hitches, with rush stems interlocking. The resemblance of this 

 to Asiatic types on the Pacific is most striking (fig. 41). 



In a small area on Fraser River, in southwestern Canada, on the 

 upper waters of the Columbia, and in many Salishan tribes of north- 

 western Washington, basketry called "Klikitat" is made. The foun- 

 dation, as said, is in cedar or spruce root, while the sewing is done 

 with the outer and tough portion of the root; the stitches pass over 

 the upper bundle of splints and are locked with those underneath. 

 On the outside of these baskets is a form of technic, which also consti- 

 tutes the ornamentation. It is not something added, or overlaid, or 



