. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 245 of the basket it plain coiled sewing", showing the foundation rod clearly ])etween the stitches. Passing tlu^ awl jjoint between the stitches on the inside, it is carefully pushed through so as to divide the sewing splint of the previous coil exactly in the middle. This gives the appearance of embroidery stitches from the center of the bottom to the outer mai'gin. This specimen of furcated stitchin
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 245 of the basket it plain coiled sewing", showing the foundation rod clearly ])etween the stitches. Passing tlu^ awl jjoint between the stitches on the inside, it is carefully pushed through so as to divide the sewing splint of the previous coil exactly in the middle. This gives the appearance of embroidery stitches from the center of the bottom to the outer mai'gin. This specimen of furcated stitching is in the collection of Edward L. McLeod. Those familiar with the coiled basket making taught in the industrial schools will compare this work with their own, in which the colored raha is hidden in the foundation for a space of wrapping and comes out at the point where the double stitch is to be made. The transition ])etween lace w^ork and coiled bas- ketry is interesting. In the netted bags of pita fiber, common throughout middle America, in the muskemoots or Indian bags of tine caribou skin thong from the Mackenzie River district, as well as in the lace-like netting of the Mohave carrying frames and Peruvian textiles, the sewing and inter- locking constitute the whole texture, the woman doing her work over a short cylinder or spreader of wood or bone, which she moves along as she woi'ks. When the plain sewing changes to half hitches, or stitches in wdiich the moving part of the filament or twine is wrapped or served one or more times about itself, there is the rude beginning of point lace work. This is seen in basketry and soft wallets of the Mac- kenzie River tribes, the Hopewell mound relics in Ohio, here and there in California, and especially among the Fuegians, as well as in many pieces from various parts of the Old World. (See iigs. 59, 115). The sewing materials vary with the region. In the Aleutian Islands it is of delicate straw; in the adjacent region it is spruce
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