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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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tly as shown in Fig. 5, fastening off the endby tightly wrapping and tucking in. SPLINT AXD SWEET GRASS BASKETS.—In Fig. 6 four bas-kets of splints and sweet grass are shown. In the bottom one to theleft the base is composed of simple mat foundation, five splints eachway. These are turned up for the sides and twined weaving of sweetgrass composes the woof. When the desired height is attained, thespokes are turned down and tucked in. Then the rim is strengthenedinside with a colored splint, and outside with a row of sweet grass, bothof which are bound on with a narrow splint as is clearly seen in the en-graving. The lid is made of five broad and two narrow splints, thelatter at the sides. On these are woven twined rows of sweet grass,and the edges bound as is the rim of the basket. The former isaffixed to the latter by lacing the binding of the basket to that of thelid. A small wrapped loop is affixed to both basket and lid. The only difference between the basket at the bottom to the
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FIG. 144. BASKETS OF SPLINT AND SWEET GRASS.Courtesy Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 99 right and the one just described is that after a few rows of sweet grassare twined into the sides one wide and two narrow splints are intro-duced. The wide splint is woven, one under, one over, as in allordinary web weaving. But the two small splints—which togetherare about 1-8 of an inch wider than the broad splint on which theyrest—are crossed from bottom to top under every other spoke, form-ing a little nipple or elevation between the spokes. Then moretwined sweet grass completes the sides, which are bound as beforedescribed. The lid is made in like manner. The round basket of Fig. 6 is composed of even splints about half-an-inch wide and laid as shown in Fig. 140. Three or four rows of simple web weave at the outer edge of thebase tighten the spokes. They are then turned up for the sides and

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