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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
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lessly through the stitchesbelow, in others the splitting is designed and beautiful. In the Kliki-tat basketry the pieces of spruce or cedar root not used for sewingmaterial are also worked into the foundation. I. Grass-coil basketry.—The foundation is a bunch of grass orrush stems, of small midribs from palm: leaves, or shredded yucca. Theeffect in all such ware is good, for the reason that the maker has per-fect control of her material. Excellent examples of this kind are tobe seen in the southwestern portions of the United States, among thepueblos and missions, and in northern Africa. The sewing may bedone with split stems of hard wood, willow, rhus, and the like, or, asin the case of the Mission baskets in southern California, of the stemsof rushes (Juncus acutus), or stiff grass (Epicampes rigidum). (Seefig. 83 and the cross section given in fig. 76 I). In the larger granarybaskets of the Pima a bundle of straws furnishes the foundation, 68 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS.
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FIG. 90. COILED RAFFIA BASKTES. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 69 while the sewing is done with broad strips of tough bark, as in fig. 84.In the Fuegian coiled basketry, of which a figure is given, the sewingis done with rushes, but instead of being in the ordinary over-and-overstitch it consists of a series of half hitches or buttonhole stitches (fig.86). Among the basketry belonging to the grass-coil foundation typeare the Hopi plaques, built upon a thick bundle of the woody stems ofthe yuccas, which furnish also the sewing material from the split leaf(fig. 85). If this be examined in comparison with a style of basketryfound in Egypt and in northern Africa as far as the Barbary states,great similarity will be noticed in the size of the coil, the color of thesewing material, the patterns, and the stitches. The suggestion ishere made that this particular form of workmanship may be due toacculturation, inasmuch as this type of basketry is confined in Americato the Hopi pueblos,

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