. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . eeled in the springof the year. At thistime the bark isquite flexible andmay be bent intothe desired corners aresewed with coarseroots from the sametree and the rim isstrengthened by astrip of root sewedover and around itby means of a liner strand. These baskets serve a good puri)ose when the women are pick-ing berries, of which they are inordinately fond; and during that season it is a rarity to see a woman or man without a mouth stained the peculiar blue color which these berries
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . eeled in the springof the year. At thistime the bark isquite flexible andmay be bent intothe desired corners aresewed with coarseroots from the sametree and the rim isstrengthened by astrip of root sewedover and around itby means of a liner strand. These baskets serve a good puri)ose when the women are pick-ing berries, of which they are inordinately fond; and during that season it is a rarity to see a woman or man without a mouth stained the peculiar blue color which these berries of this shape fretiuently have a top of buckskin sewed to them, closed with a drawstring, as shown in Fig. 117 (No. 3485). Such things serve to hold trinkets and other small objects are carried in bags, either long or basket-shaped, made of the skins of deer legs. The leg skins are scraped and fig. , Nenenot. worked to a moderate degree of pliability and their edges sewed together until a sufficient number have been joined to make the bag of the re-. Fio. 116.—Bircbbark basket, Nenenot.
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