. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . wining process. Theborder of the bottom is marked off by arow of double weaving or a twine builtoutside the body of the basket.* Smithsonian Report, 1884, Part il, p. 297. Aboriginal Basket-work, Mason, 316 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. The principal dififereuce between the styles of baskets shown in and 182 is in the size, the former being broader and flatter than thelatter, which is about 9 inches deep and 6^ inches in diameter. Fig. 184represents a 12 by 12 inch twined circular basket made by the ChilcatInd
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . wining process. Theborder of the bottom is marked off by arow of double weaving or a twine builtoutside the body of the basket.* Smithsonian Report, 1884, Part il, p. 297. Aboriginal Basket-work, Mason, 316 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. The principal dififereuce between the styles of baskets shown in and 182 is in the size, the former being broader and flatter than thelatter, which is about 9 inches deep and 6^ inches in diameter. Fig. 184represents a 12 by 12 inch twined circular basket made by the ChilcatIndians with embroidered design on the exterior. Fig. 189 representsa basket wallet of the same type as the above, but flattened into theshape in which they are usually carried. The colors used in theornamentation are black and red. This style of basketry, as all others,is copied by the Haida, who, however, use gaudier colors and are notquite so expert as their northern Tlingit neighbors. The specimenillustrated in Fig. 189 is No. 21560, U. S. National Museum. Fig. 190a,. Fig. and Embkoideeed Basket Wallet. (Cat. No. ;60, U. S. N. M. Chilkat Indians, Alaska. Collected by Dr. J. B. White, U. S. A.) Plate XXXVII, represents a general type*of both Haida and Tlingitopen-work twined basket, the details of the twine weaving being shownin b of the same plate. This is reproduced from Professor O. T. Masonsarticle on ^ Aboriginal Basket-work already referred to. Dishes.—In nothing more than in their wooden and horn dishes havethese Indians been conservative. Portlock and Dixon (1787), Marchand(1791), and Lisiansky (1805), all describe the same types of householdutensils as are found to-day in this region. A few of the general va-rieties of wooden dishes are shown in Plates xxxviii, xxxix, and are usually carved from blocks of spruce wood, ornamented withrows of shells, and have in more or less elaborate detail the totem ofthe owner etched or carved upon them. Of
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