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Title: How to make Indian and other baskets
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indian baskets Basket making
Publisher: New York : H. Malkan

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s. It is merely suggestive, and tostimulate the weaver to find out what she can use from her ownlocality. \Yhen any new material, not named here, is found I shallbe obliged if a sample be sent to me. to Pasadena, California, with itslocal and Indian name, its habitat, habit or growth, quantity, how pre-pared and any further particulars that may be of interest. It must not be supposed that familiarity with and skill in the useof one material can be transferred at will to some other material!.Each material demands personal study and use. One who haslearned how to use willows cannot immediately work in reed or rat-tan, and yucca strands need very different handling from squaw grassor pine needles. In this diversity the true student will find pleasure.The overcoming of difficulties exercises the faculty of invention. Care should be taken, and a caution given to children, to avoid thegrasses with saw-toothed or other sharp edges. One may be cut sev- 20 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS.
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FIG. 13. SPLINT AND SWEET GRASS BASKETS.Courtesy Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 21 erely if careless in handling such grasses, and there are plenty ofother materials without using these that may do injury. COCKLE-BUR. The much-despised and hated cockle-bur maybe used as a stimulant of the childs imagination in the beginning ofhis work. These burs can be found anywhere, and when the childrenhave gathered them they can be shown in one lesson how that, bysticking them together, a form can be created. Then it is well toleave them to their own imagination, allowing them to create any&hape they may desire. RAFFIA is ideal weaving material for the untrained fingers of be-ginners or the weak fingers of children. It is soft and flexible andeasily handled. As strength and digital dexterity increase strongermaterials can be used, especially as they afford so much greater oppor-tunity for the exercise of skill and artistic effort. Raffia is the nati

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