PLATE XLI. 



( Mason. Basket-work ) 



Fig. 71. Coiled basket of Upper Egypt, made of bundles of palm-leaf veins, sewed 

 with strips of palm leaf. Introduced here for comparison with the Moki 

 work. Ornamentation in red and black. A long red or black strip of leaf 

 is laid on the outside, of a coil and caught down by alternate stitches. The 

 varying of the number of stitches caught over or covered by these strips 

 produces a multitude of effects. These baskets are frequently pitched for 

 boats or Moses' arks. Collected by Dr. G. W. Samson, in Upper Eg} pt, 1848. 

 Museum number, 74871. 



Fig. 72. One square inch of Fig. 71, showing the sewing and the strips of ornament. 



