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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



provisions suspended by a cord depending from the head-strap at its 

 junction with the cradle-frame. 



Fig. 40. 

 Turkish Gypsy carrying a Child in Peddler's Pack. 



(From photograph in U. S. N. M. ) 



A feature in the weaving of the Patagonian wallet is worthy of at- 

 tention, although its description would be better in a paper on weaving. 

 There is in the National Museum a game-bag from Mackenzie River, 

 and another from Kodiak, made of exceedingly fine babbiche or buck- 

 skin cut into string. The weaving is effected by means of an endless 

 cliain of half hitches, each loop caught into loop below. In Central 

 America, everywhere, thousands .of open net- work bags of all sizes are 



