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figures woven in of a darker color; the girls sometimes add 
beads and feathers for smaller baskets (Fig. 39). The con- 
ical baskets used for carrying Fig. 39. 
burdens is woven instead of 
being sewed together, and is of 
looser texture and lighter in 
weight (Fig. 40). They are 
quite durable, however, and are 
used to carry wood, acorns, or 
household goods on a journey. UH 
The water baskets were also 
durable and would hold t a The yoke used to carry the conical basket. 
b The awl used in sew sowing the basket. 
water.* Water was made to *Fraeme 
boil in them by dropping in d Inside view of the same, showing that 
. stitch from above run 
stones previously heated. The i M 
women” ‘skilfully: vuséd £wo Rod ere. 
sticks in handling hot stones or coals as we would tongs. 
Kies In bread making the women pounded 
the acorns between two stones, a hol- 
lowed one serving for a mortar (Fig. 41), 
until it was reduced to a powder as fine 
as our eorn meal. They removed some 
of the bitterness of the meal by scraping 
hollows in the sand and leaching it, by 
causing water to percolate slowly through 
it. To prepare it for cooking the dough 
was wrapped in green leaves and these 
balls were covered with hot stones. It 
comes out dark colored and not appetiz- 
, but it is nutritious and was eaten 
SEE with gratitude by Fremont’s men in 
Waker, 7s a burden 1844, Fish and meat were sometimes 
cooked in this way. A salmon rolled in grape leaves and 
surrounded with hot stones, the whole covered with dry 
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* A shallow basket of their work. which has been in the Museum collection for years, 
now holds cold water as perfectly as when it was made. — EDs. 
