. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. I'iS. COILED WORKBASKET. Tinno Indians. Collected by I'. H. Kay. It is said to have come from Sidaru. The owner dechired that it came from the (jreat River in the South, which Mr. Murdoch intery)rets to mean the Kowak, flowing into Ilotham Inlet. 'Hie Eskimo are in the ha))it of going to tliis place in order to trade with the Indians, and thus this coiled ])asket found its way into the possession of the Es- kimo at Point l^arrow. This
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. I'iS. COILED WORKBASKET. Tinno Indians. Collected by I'. H. Kay. It is said to have come from Sidaru. The owner dechired that it came from the (jreat River in the South, which Mr. Murdoch intery)rets to mean the Kowak, flowing into Ilotham Inlet. 'Hie Eskimo are in the ha))it of going to tliis place in order to trade with the Indians, and thus this coiled ])asket found its way into the possession of the Es- kimo at Point l^arrow. This ligure is 330 on page 326 in Murdoch's paper. Catalogue No. 89801. Height, a])Out3yV inches. Collected by P. II. Ray, U. S. Army. Catalogue No. 89802 in the U. S. National Museum is a conical workbasket, with a seal- skin top for a drawing string to keep the con- tents from falling out. It is in coiled weav- ing over a single rod, from Sidaru, northern Alaska, near Point Barrow, collected by Lieut. P. H. Ray, U. S. Army. It is similar in tech- nic with No. 89801. Its height is 4^ inches, and it has been described by Murdoch. (See fig. 128.) Catalogue No. 56504 in the LT. S. National Museum is an Eskimo woman's workbox (Aguma, ama, ipiaru) in coiled l)asketry, from Point Barrow, Alaska, also collected })y Lieu- tenant Ray. The material is willow and the technic is coiled work of the single-rod t^^pe. The neck of the bas- ket is of black tanned sealskin and is tied with a string of the same material. Height, If inches. It has been descril)ed ])y Mur- doch. (See fig. 129.) Take an example from another part of Alaska. Fig. 130 is a coiled basket of the Tinne Indians who are settled on the Lower Yukon River. The foundation is a single rod of spruce root and the sewing is done wdth splints of the same material. It be- longs to the type of coiled work called a single rod (see p. 250); the stitches inter- lock with those underneath and inclose also the rod of that coil. Each stitch, th
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