. British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné . Lower Thompson. Flying geese LiUooet Tribe. Design rcprefenting a net, with pattern deer, man, dogf, flies, etc., in interspaces H V >J Yakima Tiibe. Flying birds pattern £1 Lower ThoiupMiii. with open mouthand teeth ; hair along hack of head ^«l»«fc.«kJG^^ ^.» i»>^. Lower Thompson. Grouse trackpattern Basketry Designs (after Farranu) To face page 117 BASKETRY AND BARK VESSELS 117 Pacific slope and not known to be practised elsewherein any part of the world. In making a basket the Salish basket-maker m
. British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné . Lower Thompson. Flying geese LiUooet Tribe. Design rcprefenting a net, with pattern deer, man, dogf, flies, etc., in interspaces H V >J Yakima Tiibe. Flying birds pattern £1 Lower ThoiupMiii. with open mouthand teeth ; hair along hack of head ^«l»«fc.«kJG^^ ^.» i»>^. Lower Thompson. Grouse trackpattern Basketry Designs (after Farranu) To face page 117 BASKETRY AND BARK VESSELS 117 Pacific slope and not known to be practised elsewherein any part of the world. In making a basket the Salish basket-maker may-treat the surface of her work in several ways. Shemay leave it in its natural state, the uniformity andregularity of the over-casting being its only decoration,or she may work in by the imbricating process certainpatterns or designs by means of strips of colouredbark; she may, as she frequently does, cover the wholeouter surface with imbricated straw-work ; or again,she may combine, as she does in her best specimen ofbasketry, the two last processes. Let us suppose it isher intention to cover the outer surface of her basketwith straw-work. She prepares this beforehand asshe does her splints. She goes to the swamp wherethe kind of grass she wants grows and cuts an armfulor two and brings it home. She does not use thewhole grass, only its stems. The
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