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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



provisions suspended by a cord depending from the bead-strap at its 

 junction with the cradle-frame. 



Fig. 40. 

 Turkish Gypsy carrying a Child ix Peddler's Pack. 



(From photograph in U. S. N. M. ) 



A feature in the weaving of the Patagonian wallet is worthy of at- 

 tention, although its description would be better in a paper on weaving. 

 There is in the National Museum a game-bag from Mackenzie River, 

 and another from Kodiak, made of exceedingly fine babbiche or buck- 

 skin cut into string. The weaving is effected by means of an endless 

 chain of half-hitches, each loop caught into loop below. In Central 

 America, everywhere, thousands of open net- work bags of all sizes are 



