Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . It 12 13 1 ? 97 ?. 201 203 Fig. no.—Embroidery designs from Thompson baskets A number of types of porcupine-quill technique are in use, all ofwhich have been fully described by William C. Orchard. Thatwhich is most like the skin work of the Koryak is strangely enoughthe finest and most delicate of them all. It has been made fromAlaska to the Great Lakes, and even among the Iroquois. It iswoven on a loom. The technicjue is described as follows: The of weaving consists first of making the
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . It 12 13 1 ? 97 ?. 201 203 Fig. no.—Embroidery designs from Thompson baskets A number of types of porcupine-quill technique are in use, all ofwhich have been fully described by William C. Orchard. Thatwhich is most like the skin work of the Koryak is strangely enoughthe finest and most delicate of them all. It has been made fromAlaska to the Great Lakes, and even among the Iroquois. It iswoven on a loom. The technicjue is described as follows: The of weaving consists first of making the warp strands of either sinewor vegetal fiber, which are stretched side by side their entire length on a bow,much as a bowstring would be strung. To keep the warp strands spread apartthe desired width two pieces of thick, leathery birch bark are perforated with astraight row of small holes corresponding in numlier with the number of strandsto be and the distance between the perforations corresponding with thewidth of a flattened porcupine quill. .\ piece of bark so prepared is placed at • William (. Or
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