PLATE XVI. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 29. Bottle covered with basket-work by Makah Indians. The groundwork is of 

 bast and the ornamentation of red, yellow, and black straws sewed on singly 

 after the Makah fashion. Great numbers of these covered bottles and 

 other fanciful forms are prepared for sale by the Makahs as well as by the 

 Haidas, whose work is similar in external appearance, but not in the 

 method of weaving. Collected at Neeah Bay, Washington Territory, by 

 James G. Swan, in 1884. Museum number, 73755. 



Fig. 30. Bottom of Fig. 29, showing the radiated warp and the alternation of twined 

 weft with the ordinary in-and-out weaving. 



Fig. 31. Portion of the side of the bottle, showing the lattice arrangement of the 

 warp, and the twined weft, producing irregular hexagons. This method 

 of producing polygonal meshes, excepting the twined weft, is pursued in 

 great variety and with excellent effect by the Japanese and other Oriental 

 peoples. 



