The mystic mid-region, the deserts of the Southwest . is used. Natural colors are much em-ployed. The brown designs are mostly madeby the use of maiden-hair fern stalks. Blackis usually obtained by dyeing the material usedwith martynia pods ; red from yucca roots andcertain berries ; green from willow bark ; pinkand various shades of red from the juice ofthe blackberry, and other colors and shadesfrom various barks and fruits. Basket-making has recently become a fadwith white women, but the dusky woman neednot fear the rivalry of her white sister. Civ-ilization has too many claims upon her, an
The mystic mid-region, the deserts of the Southwest . is used. Natural colors are much em-ployed. The brown designs are mostly madeby the use of maiden-hair fern stalks. Blackis usually obtained by dyeing the material usedwith martynia pods ; red from yucca roots andcertain berries ; green from willow bark ; pinkand various shades of red from the juice ofthe blackberry, and other colors and shadesfrom various barks and fruits. Basket-making has recently become a fadwith white women, but the dusky woman neednot fear the rivalry of her white sister. Civ-ilization has too many claims upon her, andshe has too little time and strength to devoteto the work to permit of her spending weeksin searching mountain, valley, and plain forthe material, and toiling months in the weav-ing, of a single basket. Even were she to dothis, she could not weave into it the traditionsof a race, the faith of a religion, the longingsof a soul, and the poetry of a people. Untilthis is possible, the Indian basket will standwithout a peer and its maker without a rival. From photograph hy C. C. Pierce iv C MOJAVE BASKET-MAKER 105 CHAPTER \II1 SHIPS OF THE DESERT AX account of the desert which omitted tomake mention of the burro would bewoefully incomplete. The burro has been oneof the most important factors in desert ex-jjloration and development. He is far moresaL,^acious and enduring- than the horse ormule. He- is to the; American desert what thecamel is to the deserts of the Eastern hemi-sphere. Pew persons are aware that camels wereonce used upon the American deserts, but suchare the facts. Ten years after the Pathfinder,General John C. bremont, crossed the desertand traversed the Golden State, and four yearsafter Marshall had thrilled the world with hisdiscovery of gold in Northern California, Jef-ferson Davis, Secretary of State under Presi-dent Pierce, consigned to Mr. L. P. Redwine,of Los Angeles, a lot of camels, to be used intransporting supplies to Government posts io8 The Mystic Mid-Re
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