. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 235. DIAGONAI, TWINKl) RASKKTRY. Pmiio Iiidiiiiis, California. C' of ('. 1'. Wilconil). Plate 20 will make clear th(^ difference between plain twined weav- ino- and diagonal twined or twilled work. The tio-urt\s ar(> of the bur- den basket, the granary, and the mush bowls of tiie Porno Indians, in Lake, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties, California, in the collection of C. P. Wilcoml). Especial attent
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 235. DIAGONAI, TWINKl) RASKKTRY. Pmiio Iiidiiiiis, California. C' of ('. 1'. Wilconil). Plate 20 will make clear th(^ difference between plain twined weav- ino- and diagonal twined or twilled work. The tio-urt\s ar(> of the bur- den basket, the granary, and the mush bowls of tiie Porno Indians, in Lake, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties, California, in the collection of C. P. Wilcoml). Especial attention is here drawn to the inlinittdy greater possibilities of decoration in the twilled work. The foregoing phite shows that the ornamentation of plain twined l)asketry is confined chiefly to hands, but here the artist revels in the cycloid, which widens and becomes more intri- cate as it ascends. It rivals in com- plexity the best coiled work of th(> Pomos and should be compared with Plates 20 and 5«;. 8. W/'aj)jjed ttnincd tnari/u/.—In wrapped twined weaving one element of tlie twine passes along horizontally across the warp stems, usually on the inside of the ]>asket, forming a lattice. The binding element of splint, or strip of l)ark, or string, is wrapped around the crossings of the horizontal element with the vertical warp. (See lig. 21.) On the outside of the basket the turns of the wrapping are oldique; on the inside they ar(^ vertical. It will be seen on examining this fig- ure that one row inclines to the right, the one above it to the left, and so on alternately. This was occasioned l)y the weaver's passing from side to side of the square car- rying basket, and not all the way round as usual, l^he work is simi- lar to that in an old-fashioned bird cage, where the upright and hori- zontal wires are held in place by a wrapping of liner soft wire. The typical example of this wrapped or bird-cage twine is to l)e seen among the Makah Indians of the Wakashan family
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