. How to make Indian and other baskets . PIG. 143. SPOKES TURNED UP FOR SIDES. There are five simple methods of work, all of which it is well to under-stand. These are distinguished by the following names: I. The The plait. III. The net. IV. The coil. V. The \veb. Whilein some regards these five methods overlap each other, I have deemedit best to discuss each one separately. The two chapters respectively on The Choice and the Preparationof Materials may be skipped or not as the reader PIG. 4. FANCY SPLINT Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN
. How to make Indian and other baskets . PIG. 143. SPOKES TURNED UP FOR SIDES. There are five simple methods of work, all of which it is well to under-stand. These are distinguished by the following names: I. The The plait. III. The net. IV. The coil. V. The \veb. Whilein some regards these five methods overlap each other, I have deemedit best to discuss each one separately. The two chapters respectively on The Choice and the Preparationof Materials may be skipped or not as the reader PIG. 4. FANCY SPLINT Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. I I CHAPTER II. THE SPIRIT IN WHICH BASKET MAKING SHOULD BE APPROACHED. Browning well wrote: Not on the vulgar mass called workMust judgement pass. There is more in life than the mere outward expressions of it wecall work, and in the work of basket-making much will depend uponthe motive, the spirit, in which it is approached and done. The trueimitator of Indian work—or, perhaps, it would be better to say, thetrue worker desirous of emulating Indian work—must approach it inthe true Indian spirit and this I have endeavored to describe in mylarger book on Indian Basketry. Suffice it to say here that the basketto the uncontaminated Indian meant a work of art, in which hope, aspi-ration, desire, love, religion, poetry, national pride, mythology, wereall more or less interwoven. Hence the work was approached in aspirit as far removed from that of mere commercialism, passing wh
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