Annual report . the head the wide husks areheld upward against the top ofthe head and a string passedaround them. The husks are thenbent downward and the stringtightened. This leaves a little cir-cular opening at the top of thehead. The head cover husks aredrawn tightly over the form andtied at the neck, which is after-ward wound neatly with a smoothhusk. More diagonal pieces areplaced over the shoulders fore andaft and drawn tightly down to thewaist. A wide band is thendrawn around the waist and doll is now ready for cornsilk hair which may be sewn on,and its face may be pa
Annual report . the head the wide husks areheld upward against the top ofthe head and a string passedaround them. The husks are thenbent downward and the stringtightened. This leaves a little cir-cular opening at the top of thehead. The head cover husks aredrawn tightly over the form andtied at the neck, which is after-ward wound neatly with a smoothhusk. More diagonal pieces areplaced over the shoulders fore andaft and drawn tightly down to thewaist. A wide band is thendrawn around the waist and doll is now ready for cornsilk hair which may be sewn on,and its face may be paintedon. These dolls are sometimesdressed in husk clothing but moreoften cloth or skin is are dressed as warriors andwomen and are given all the ac-cessories, bows, tomahawks, baby-boards or paddles, as the sex may require. Among the articles made from husks, moccasins are perhaps asuncommon as any. Morgan collected a pair for the State Museumin 1851, but the specimens are not now to be found. In 1910. Fig. 18 Common type of the husk dollmade by the Iroquois of New York andCanada. Figure is half size. 84 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM the writer succeeded in getting two pairs on the Cattaraugus Reser-vation from a husk worker who spent some time in finding amongthe old women one who remembered the art. She was successful in her inquiries and was able to maketwo pairs for the State are most ingeniously woven butare as snug as any slipper ever details of these moccasins areshown in plate 24. Small baskets were woven fromtwisted corn husks. Trays, tablemats and salt bottles were similarlymade. The basket was commencedby tying two rolled husks togetherwith another single husk inserted,and then starting two oppositelyplaced husks about them by the twin-ing process as the width of the warpincreased, as it radiated from thecenter others were inserted and thetwining process repeated. When thedesired size of the bottom was reachedthe warp was bent at right angles
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