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figure, or by weaving a ring of yucca fiber neatly around a mass of the 

 shredded fiber. This ring is placed upon the head and the round-bot- 

 tomed jar upon that. When the jar is set down the ring still is made 

 to support it and keep it in an upright position. Many jars have a 

 concavity beneath, which really seems to be an afterthought. It is only 

 a seeming, however, as there is no evidence either way. In comparison 

 with the Zuni water-carrier is shown an Italian girl in Palermo perform- 

 ing the same feat. It is only a short step from this figure to the cary- 

 atid, in which architecture glorifies in marble one of the humblest oc- 

 cupations of humanity. (Fig. 21.) 



Fig. 17. 

 Small Fkuit-pickek's basket. 



Fig 



Fruit-basket. 



(Cat.J^o. 70937. U. S. N. M. Moki Pueblos, Ar 



Col lectedby James 



(Cat. No. 22993, U. S. N. M. 

 by Muj-i 



s, Arizona. Collected 



The Pueblo Indians, like the Eskimo above described, use the breast- 

 strap in dragging loads. They have the clumsy wooden Spanish cart 

 and the diminutive burro, but there are occasions when the man or the 

 woman is regularly hitched up to drag a load up the precipitous mesas, 

 where even a burro could not climb. The breast-strap is made of yucca 

 fiber woven in diagonal patterns, and forms a very efficient harness. 

 This strap, however, is even more likely to be rested across the fore- 

 head than upon the breast. (Fig. 22.) 



The Apaches are extremely artistic in their manufacture of appliances 

 for burden-bearing. The carrying basket, here figured, is made of rods 

 sewed together by the coiled process. Ornamentation is effected by the 



