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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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ed at the right time the black is perfect, and all the designs of thePima, Apache and Havasupai baskets are worked out with it. In Australia and New Zealand grows the pimelea, a slender branch-ing shrub with tough, stringy bark. This bark is prepared and thefibre used for textile purposes. All lovers of the fine basketry of Northern California know therich black wrapping splint of the twined basketry. This is* the stemof the Adiantum pedatum, the MAIDEN HAIR FERN. There are some pliant species of SMILAX (S. Pseudo—China),known as bull-brier, which are used in basket-making. The fibre of the cocoanut, called COIR, could be so prepared asto make a fairly good wrapping splint for coiled work. The SILK GRASS of British Honduras, which is the same asthe pita of Central America, is a valuable fiber produced principallyfrom the Bromelia Sylvestris, a kind of wild pineapple, though thename pita is given indiscriminately to the fibre obtained from the 26 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS.
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FIG. 25. RAFFIA BOUND PICTURE FRAMES.Work of Students, Teachers College, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 27 various species Of Agave. This is also known as henequen, or sisalhemp, and is largely used for making ships cajbles, as it resists damp-ness better than the simple hemp. There are two or three species of WILLOW that are largely cul-tivated for basket-making. In Europe the Almond-leafed willow(Salix Amygdalkia) and especially the Golden Willow or osier (S.Vitellina) are used for this purpose. Most of the coarse basketryof England is made from this latter species, and the finer work is madeby splitting the willow into splints and using them for wrapping, asdo the California and other Indians. Somehow the words Sisal Willow have come into use inbasketry. I am free to confess I do not know what the Sisal Willow

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