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itself so as to be underneath the next stitch, and so with each one 

 it is bent backward and forward so that the sewing is entirelj^ con- 

 cealed, forming a sort of "knife plaiting." In some of the finer old 

 baskets in the National Museum, collected sixt}' years ago, the entire 

 surface is covered with work of this kind, the strips not being over 

 an eighth of an inch wide. Mr. James Teit describes and illustrates 

 this type of weaving among the Thompson River Indians of British 

 Columbia, who are Salishan. The body of the basket is in the root of 

 Thvja gigantea, and the ornamen- 

 tation in strips of Elymus triti- 

 coides2indi Primus demissa (fig. 43). 



Fig. 43. 

 imbricated basketry detail, from the 

 thompson river indians, british columbia. 



After James Teit. 



Fig. 44. 

 imbricated coiled work, called klikitat. 



Rep. U. S. National Museum, 1884, pL 6, flg. 10. 



Imbrication is one of the most 

 restricted of technical processes. 

 Eells says tha,t some women in 

 every tribe on Puget Sound could produce the stitch, and he names 

 the Puyallups, Twanas, Snohomish, Clallam, Makah, Skagit, Cowlitz, 

 Chehalis, Nisqualli, and Squaxon. It is understood that here it is a 

 modern acquirement. It is the native art of the Klikitat, Yakima, 

 and Spokanes, all of whom are of the Shahaptian family. The Thomp- 

 son River Indians, who are Salishan, have long known the art. 



LIST OF BASKET-MAKING TRIBES. 



The following list includes the names of those tribes known to the 

 author as makers of an}^ kind of basketry, especially in North 

 America, together with the linguistic families to which they belong, 

 and their locations. 



In a much fuller work, to be subsequent!}^ published, a larger list 

 will be given, and it is desirable that those who are interested in the 

 subject will supply to the author the names of those tribes not to be 

 found here. 



Tribe. Family. 



Abnaki Algonquian . 



Aleut Eskimauan . 



Algonkin Algonquian . 



Locality. 

 .Point Pleasant, Maine. 

 .Aleutian Islands. 

 .Northern frontier and Canada. 



Apache tribes Athapascan Arizona and New Mexico. 



