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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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FIGS. 10 AND 11. CHETEMACHE MATS.Courtesy Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. Selection of the best next follows, and thus both senses and brain,are healthfully exercised and stimulated. And this is not merely good for a child. Many a nervous, dyspep-tic, broken-down adult would find new life and health in doing whatI have here suggested. Out of doors! Out of doors! Into Godspure air, sunlight and odors. There is His chemical labratory wherehealth, vigor, power are hourly being manufactured. Get out into thefullness of it. Breathe in it; drink it in; absorb it in. Fill up lungs,blood, nerves and brain with pure life and health, throw physics tothe dogs, send melancholia and depression to the devil, defy the demonof dyspepsia and come back into the world of men and women con-scious of strength and power to do what you will.
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HW 02<H PQ w H T PHP H I—I « Q C3i—l d HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 19 CHAPTER IV.THE PREPARATION OF MATERIALS. Personal experimentation should be the keynote in the mind ofevery adult who seeks to gain the greatest good from basket-making.I will know for myself! 1 will experiment and test and find outeverything that can be found out as to the resources of my neighbor-hood that can be utilized in this work. With all our scientific know-ledge we cannot improve upon the methods and results of the Indians,except, perhaps, in the matter of speed. Their dyes are unfading;their colors perfectly beautiful, appropriate and harmonious, theirmaterial as perfect as- it can be made. In Indian Basketry, pages72 to 85, I gathered together much information as to materials used bythe Indians, and methods of preparation. In that chapter the studentwill find many suggestions that may aid her in utilizing the materialdf her own section. One thing, however, she -may be sure of, viz., tha

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