Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . this so spreads them thatthe bare ends are almost concealed. The regularity of the stitchesimparts quite an ornamental effect which the women strive to obtain,but if the work is done inaccurately it appears as an unavoidableblemish. Two other methods of stitching the ends of slats are in one the slat is perforated in the center by means of an awl about from the end. (Fig. \l,d.) Otherwise the result is the same as inthe former method, when only one line is carried across the ends
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . this so spreads them thatthe bare ends are almost concealed. The regularity of the stitchesimparts quite an ornamental effect which the women strive to obtain,but if the work is done inaccurately it appears as an unavoidableblemish. Two other methods of stitching the ends of slats are in one the slat is perforated in the center by means of an awl about from the end. (Fig. \l,d.) Otherwise the result is the same as inthe former method, when only one line is carried across the ends. In the third the encircling coil is sewed to the ends of the slats byone or more stitches taken every time that the space between thecoils is reached. These pass through the binding quite a distanceaway from the ends for the purpose of ornamentation as much asof securing the coil. (Fig. 11, e,f.) Plate 6, h, c, show these methodson beautifully constructed bottoms. As a rule slat bottoms of the second and third t_y]:)es which aremade separately from the basket have several rows of coils built. Fig. 11.—Methods of making slat bottoms around them before the side walls are started. Very angular shapeswhich have a foot to keep the bottom from resting on the lloor forman exception to this. Either face may become the outside, so duringits construction the worker turns it to suit her convenience, but thedirection of the sewing is always toward the right. The women give two reasons for adding the encircling coils. Thefirst is that they consider a sharp turn from bottom to walls to bebad artistically; in fact, absurd for burden baskets. In some Lillooetexamples of this shape it is said that only about two-thirds of theentire bottom is made of slats, the rest being of coils which in curvedalignment connect the jilane of the base with that of tlie the Thompson use slat walls they experience great difhcultyin securing the proper, gradual rounding between the two parts oftlie
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