PLATE XX. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 38. Twined wallet of Nez Perce" Indians (Sahaptin stock) made of the bast of 

 Indian hemp (Apocynum cannabinum). A sufficient number of warp strands 

 were stretched and joined together in their middle by one row of twining. 

 The ends of these warp strands were then brought together, and the weaver, 

 by continuing the twine around and around, built up her bag. The orna- 

 mentation is the same old story of straw colored, brown, blue, and green 

 strings of the Indian hemp twined externally. Collected in Idaho, by Rev. 

 George Ainslee. Museum textile number, 8025. * 



Fig. 39. One square inch of Fig. 38, showing the body twining and the twined orna- 

 ment above. 



