. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroebek] HANDBOOK- OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 591 certain to have transported with it some religious associations. (PI. 42.) Flat feather bands are of the type of the yellow-hammer orna- ments so characteristic of the whole cis-Sierra region, but their de- tailed form, as revealed in total length, inaccuracy of stringing, and proportion of feather to quill, allies them more particularly to the corresponding article of the Luiseiio and other southern Cali- fornia ns. (PI. 58.) Baskets, again, are of Yokuts rather than southern affinities. The plate or shallow bowl, it is tr
. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroebek] HANDBOOK- OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 591 certain to have transported with it some religious associations. (PI. 42.) Flat feather bands are of the type of the yellow-hammer orna- ments so characteristic of the whole cis-Sierra region, but their de- tailed form, as revealed in total length, inaccuracy of stringing, and proportion of feather to quill, allies them more particularly to the corresponding article of the Luiseiio and other southern Cali- fornia ns. (PI. 58.) Baskets, again, are of Yokuts rather than southern affinities. The plate or shallow bowl, it is true, is coiled; but there is a conical carrying basket, and it is twined. The pitched water basket is indispensable to a potless desert people. The carrying cap was worn by women. It was coiled. The founda- tion for coiled ware is a bundle of Epicampes grass stems containing a single woody lod; the sewing is strands of willow, and black patterns are made with the horns of Martynia pods, or ^Scirpus bulrush roots soaked in ashes. For red, tree yucca root is used. Twined ves- sels are of strands of willow or sumac on shoots of the same. The patterns are also in Martynia, or if red, of tree yucca root. The carrying net is of southern California type (Fig. 53), but without the convenient loops of the Cahuilla form (Fig. 59). Earth-covered sweat houses were used reg- ularly, at least by some men. They were large enough to stand up in. The soil was heaped over a layer of " arrowweed," Pluchea sericea. (PI. 56.) The bow is of juniper, short, and sinew- backed. The string is sinew, or Apocynum, wild hemp, the usual cordage material. The arrow is of willow, or of Phragmites cane; the latter has a long point of greasewood. The cane ai'row is heated in the groove of a stone straightener of Yokuts-Cahuilla type, then seized in the teeth and the ends bent. SUBSISTENCE. The most important food in the oakless country was the Nevada pine nut, from Pinus monophyllci. Seeds were gathere
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