Annual report . te Museumspecimen, the owner, Lyman Johnson, Gaientwake, claiming it hadbeen made in about 1900 by his mother. Probably the corn husk article most familiar to white people sur-rounding Indian reservations is the husk door mat, gadjisha. Thismat is braided in such a manner that tufts of the husk are left pro-truding from the top of the braid. The braid then is coiled so asto form an oval or round mat and the thick tufts of still husktrimmed off evenly, and the flat braids sewed securely with threadsof husk Mats of this kind are common on all the details of the f
Annual report . te Museumspecimen, the owner, Lyman Johnson, Gaientwake, claiming it hadbeen made in about 1900 by his mother. Probably the corn husk article most familiar to white people sur-rounding Indian reservations is the husk door mat, gadjisha. Thismat is braided in such a manner that tufts of the husk are left pro-truding from the top of the braid. The braid then is coiled so asto form an oval or round mat and the thick tufts of still husktrimmed off evenly, and the flat braids sewed securely with threadsof husk Mats of this kind are common on all the details of the foot mat are shown in plate 26. Dolls, gayada, are made by folding the husk in a pestlelikeform for the neck and body. Room is left for the head and neckand the central core is pierced to allow a wisp of husk to be pulledthrough to be braided into arms. The lower portion is pierced inthe same way and the husk for the legs pulled through. Husks arerolled around the upper portion of the neck and the head is Plate 24
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