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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



The Utes have no pottery except what they have borrowed. Not to 

 be defeated, however, in a matter so necessary to their happiness, their 

 ingenuity has been equal to the occasion. Both the Utes and the 

 Apaches make bottles and jars of twigs (Fig. 14) holding from half a 

 pint to many gallons. These they calk with hot pitch until they are 

 perfectly water-tight. On the side of this primitive demijohn lugs or 



Fig. 14. 

 San Carlos Apache Woman carrying water in a wicker jar lined with pitch. 



(From a photograph in the U. S. National Museum.) 



loops are fastened, and a soft buckskin head-band served through these 

 enables Aquaria to bring often from a great distance water, seeds, and 

 other necessaries. 



The use of the carrying-net is not common in America. Major Powell 

 brought from Utah in 1874 a large collection to illustrate the life of the 

 tribes there. The Utes, and indeed the tribes south of them, employ 

 the net to catch rabbits and other small game. They know also how to 

 turn the net into a carrying appliance. (Fig. 15.) One of the devices 

 is here shown. The knot here used is the standard mesh-knot found all 

 over the world, and it is interesting to find it here among the savages 

 of Utah. 



In northwestern Arizona are the Moki Pueblos. The westernmost 

 of these, Oraibi, is celebrated for its basketry. In addition to the twined 



