PLATE IV. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. fi. One square inch of Fig. 5 enlarged, snowing tbe bunch of straws used as the 

 body of the coil, and the manner of whipping the turns of the coil with 

 grass threads. Instead of carefully looping the thread into the oik- just he- 

 low, as is done in the best coiled work, the basket-maker passed the sticks 

 indiscriminately through or between those below. Some of the Eskimo bas- 

 kets, however, resemble those of the next class. 



