. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. [19] BULLETIN 39, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. II. COILED BASKETRY. Coiled basketry is produced by an over-and-over sewing with some kind of flexible material, each stitch interlocking with the one imme- diately underneath it. The exception to this is to be seen on Eskimo and Digger baskets, in which the passing stitch is driven through the wood of the stitch underneath and splits it. The transition be- tween lace work and coiled basketry is interesting. In the netted bags of pita fiber, common throughout middle America, in the muskemoots
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. [19] BULLETIN 39, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. II. COILED BASKETRY. Coiled basketry is produced by an over-and-over sewing with some kind of flexible material, each stitch interlocking with the one imme- diately underneath it. The exception to this is to be seen on Eskimo and Digger baskets, in which the passing stitch is driven through the wood of the stitch underneath and splits it. The transition be- tween lace work and coiled basketry is interesting. In the netted bags of pita fiber, common throughout middle America, in the muskemoots or Indian bags of fine caribou skin thong from the Mackenzie liiver district, as well as in the lace-like netting of the Mohave carrying frames and Peruvian textiles, the sewing and interlocking constitute the whole texr ture (fig. 31, A), the woman doing her work over a short cylinder or spreader of wood or bone, which she moves along as she works. ^ When the plain sewing changes to half-hitches—or stitches in which 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 Fuegian basketry as well as in many pieces from various parts of the Old World (fig. 41). The sewing materials vary with the region. In the Aleutian Islands it is of delicate straw; in the adjacent region it is spruce root; in British Colum- bia it is cedar or spruce root; in the more diversi- fied styles of the Pacific States every available ma- terial has been used—stripped leaf, grass stems, rushes, split root, broad fillets, and twine, the effect of each being well marked. In all coiled basketry, properly so called, there is a foundation more or less rigid, inclosed within stitches, the only imple- ment used being originally a bone awl. Fig, 30 shows the metatarsal of an antelope, sharp- ened in the middle and harder portion of the column, the joint serving for a grip to the hand. Mr, F. H. Cushing wa
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