nERAMIC STUDIO 
Scholarship, Grace Remolds ; Honorable mention, Ao-nes 
N. Lee. 
Evening Classes — Costume Drawing — Scholarship, 
Marie Bchrendt; Honorable mention. Marguerite Newmann 
and Helen Rail. 
General Art Class- First Scholarship, Ida Foster 
fwood carving); Second Scholarship, Helen Fuchs (em- 
broidery)- Divided, Katerine Bittokhte. 
together in pairs and one twined about the other. There 
is no attempt at any thin 
elsewhere in this example. 
but plain over two weaving 
DESK— IDA M. FOSTER 
Ship designs from Du Chaillu's Viking Age. The cover 
has a combat between horsemen. 
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BASKETS BY AMERICAN INDIANS 
BASKET making was a common industrj- with all the 
Indians of the American continent. In the north 
baskets were and still are made, and we know of their 
manufacture by the Indians of Carolina, Virginia, Georgia 
and Louisiana. Baskets have also been found among the 
Mound Builders. In the ruins of Southern Colorado and 
that interesting region of Arizona and New Mexico some of 
the prehistoric graves contain so many baskets as to give 
their occupants the name of The Basket Makers. 
Indian basketry is almost entirely the work of Indian 
women and among primitive arts, furnishes the most 
striking illustration of their inventive genius, resourceful- 
ness and wonderful patience. As Dr. Otis S. Mason says, 
a careful stud}^ of the homely occupations of savage women 
is the best guide to their share of creating the aesthetic arts; 
whether in the two Americas or in the heart of Africa or 
among the people of Oceanica the perpetual astonishment 
is not the lack of art, but the superabundance of it. 
Some of the oldest known specimens of Indian basketry 
are woven. The beautiful cigar case (Fig. 1) was made by 
the women of Bolivia who weave the celebrated Panama 
hats, the texture being fine twilled work. The ornamenta- 
tion should be studied carefully for it consists of twined 
weaving in which both warp and weft strands are brought 
FIG. 1. CIGAR CASE IN TWILLED WEAVING 
FIG. 2. TAQUI COVERED BASKET 
