. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. Basket. (Cat. No. 60235, U. S. N. M. Tinn« Indians, S. E. Alaska. Collected by John J. McLean.) color of the material. The cylindrical portion above the bottom is alsoin the plain color of the spruce root, but the twining is that of , Plate XII. Bands of red and black are woven into the structurefor ornamental purposes, the strands being colored on both rig. of Fig. 185. Afterwards little squares or other plain figures are sewed on inaresene, that is, only half way through, giving
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. Basket. (Cat. No. 60235, U. S. N. M. Tinn« Indians, S. E. Alaska. Collected by John J. McLean.) color of the material. The cylindrical portion above the bottom is alsoin the plain color of the spruce root, but the twining is that of , Plate XII. Bands of red and black are woven into the structurefor ornamental purposes, the strands being colored on both rig. of Fig. 185. Afterwards little squares or other plain figures are sewed on inaresene, that is, only half way through, giving the most varied effecton the outside, while the inside shows only the plain colors and thered and black bands.* In recent years the most gaudy and brilliant * Smithsonian Report, 1884, Part ii, Mason, Aboriginal Basket-work, p. 295. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVL
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