. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ABOEIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 229 and in ril)bod cloth, wherein a flexibh^ weft is worked on a rig-id warp. Also, good examples are now produced by the Algonkin tribes of New Eno-Iand and eastern Canada. P'or commercial purposes, wicker baskets precisely like those of the Abenaki Indians are thus made. The wdiite-oak timber is brought to the 3'ard in sticks running from 6 to 40 inches in diameter and from 4 to IS feet long. It is Hrst sawed
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ABOEIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 229 and in ril)bod cloth, wherein a flexibh^ weft is worked on a rig-id warp. Also, good examples are now produced by the Algonkin tribes of New Eno-Iand and eastern Canada. P'or commercial purposes, wicker baskets precisely like those of the Abenaki Indians are thus made. The wdiite-oak timber is brought to the 3'ard in sticks running from 6 to 40 inches in diameter and from 4 to IS feet long. It is Hrst sawed into convenient lengths, then split with a maul and wedges into fourths or sixteenths. The bark is then stripped ofl' with a drawing knife. The next process is cutting it into bolts at what is called the splitting horse, to be shaved down with a drawing knife into perfectly smooth, even bolts of the width and length desired. These are then placed in. Fig. 12. twilled and wicker mat. Hopi Indians, Arizona. After W. H. Holmes. the steam box and steamed for a half hour or so, which makes the splints more pliable. They are taken thence to the splint knife, which is arranged so that one person, by changing the position of the knife, can make splints of any desired thickness, from that of paper to that of a three-fourths-inch hoop. The 03"ster baskets and most small })askets have the bottom splints laid one across another and are plainly woven in checker. But the round-bottomed baskets, used for grain and truck, are made by taking from 10 to 18 ribs and laying them across each other at the middle, in radiating form, and weaving around with a narrow thin splint until the desired size for the bottom is reached, when the splints are turned up and set in other baskets, about a dozen in a series, for twenty-four Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illus
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