PLATE V. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 7. Coiled basket of tne Timid or Athabascan Indians of Alaska and British 

 America. The warp or foundation is a single osier or spruce root, the sew- 

 ing- is done with small splints of spruce root. The stitches vary from i to ^ 

 inch in length, and the splints from -^ to ■£ inch in width. The stitches of 

 each coil are locked into the stitches of the coil beneath in addition to pass- 

 ing under the fundamental rod. In some cases the Eskimo fashion of split- 

 ting the threads in sewing appears, but the evidence shows that the Timie" 

 were the teachers of the Eskimo, and the latter follow only the ruder work 

 of their preceptors. The general shape of this class of baskets is that of a 

 low narrow-mouthed jar. Collected by Lucien M. Turner, Lower Yukon 

 River. Museum number, 24342. 



Fig. 8. One square inch of Fig. 7, showing the method pursued in coiled basketry 

 with a single fundamental and a single splint of osier or spruce root. 



