Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . Institution. The arts, customs andlegends of the Pomos are peculiarly interesting, and a mostreadable volume could be written with them as a subject. Inthe space at my command I can only give a suggestion of thewealth of material. Each little tribe was an independent nation as to government,and few alliances were formed with their neighbors. The factthat distinct dialects were maintained at opposite ends of a smallvalley is sufficient proof that there was little intermarriage. Until long after the white man came, their winter homeswere dorties of wickerwo
Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . Institution. The arts, customs andlegends of the Pomos are peculiarly interesting, and a mostreadable volume could be written with them as a subject. Inthe space at my command I can only give a suggestion of thewealth of material. Each little tribe was an independent nation as to government,and few alliances were formed with their neighbors. The factthat distinct dialects were maintained at opposite ends of a smallvalley is sufficient proof that there was little intermarriage. Until long after the white man came, their winter homeswere dorties of wickerwork, thatched heavily with grass ortules, and the older people still build such homes. The beauti-ful photograph on page 8 is of such a house still standing ingood preservation in the center of Big Valley, Lake county,and was taken this spring. It so perfectly shows the manner * The rule is that the first writer who uses a word from a savag-e race as a tribal desig-tia-tioii, fixes the spelling-. I therefore use Pomo rather than POMO INDIAN BASKETS. 11
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