. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Frc. 121. TWINED WEAVE FROM ANCIENT POTTERY. Tennessee. After W. H. Holmes. Attention is called to Plate cS in the Thirteenth Ijureau Report, where is shown ancient twined work preserved ])y being- wrapped about copper ; (See iio-s. 1lU-1l>-J; also Plate lo7.) Plate L31 represents an open twined wallet of the Ojibwa Indians (Alo-on(itiian stock), at Angwassag Village, near St. Charles, Saginaw County, Michigan. The native name
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Frc. 121. TWINED WEAVE FROM ANCIENT POTTERY. Tennessee. After W. H. Holmes. Attention is called to Plate cS in the Thirteenth Ijureau Report, where is shown ancient twined work preserved ])y being- wrapped about copper ; (See iio-s. 1lU-1l>-J; also Plate lo7.) Plate L31 represents an open twined wallet of the Ojibwa Indians (Alo-on(itiian stock), at Angwassag Village, near St. Charles, Saginaw County, Michigan. The native name is Na iNIoot and it is made from the inner bark of the slippery elm ( Ulnius (uneri- ca n a). Other bags of the same technique in the U. S. National Museum are from the elm bark associated with red and black yarn. The techn ic of these wallets is so in- teresting in the sur- vival of ancient weaves that they justify a special description. The weft plain twined weaving; all the ornamentation, therefore, is effected by means of the warp, which is partly vertical, but more of the zigzag type seen in many Aleutian Island wallets. In all of the specimens examined the warp is made up of twine, partly in the material of the weft and partly in colored yarns. The diametci' of the warp twine, especially' the yarns, seems to be greater than the length of the twists in the weft, so that there is a crowding which l)rings one color to the front and leaves another color inside—that is, the figures that are l)rown on the outside will appear in yarn on the inside and the reverse. To be more explicit, beginning at the lower edge of any one of these wallets the Avarp may l)e in pairs, the elements of which .separate and come together alternately in the rows of weaving. On the outside of the bag two elm-bark warp strands will be included and appear; in the next half twine two yarns will be included and show on the inside of the wallet. After this zigzag process goes on. Fig. 122. twined wea
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